By focusing on Huck’s, education, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn fits into the tradition of a novel depicting and individual’s maturation and development He was poor, uneducated and was raised by a widow because he had a drunken dad that beat him. Huck distrusts the morals of the society that treats him as an outcast and unsuccessfully shields him from abuse. His morals and ethics are unlike the ones of society. As Huck travels down the river with Jim he realizes even more how wrong society is. This apprehension about society lead Huck to ponder many of the teaching he has received, especially regarding race and slavery. While Huck and Jim journey down the river, they meet several examples of society that disturb the blissful lives with nature. Huck has only viewed corrupt examples of selfish, phony, and confusing
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In addition, the fight between the two families tainted Huck’s views of the world also. On the raft Huck is free forms society’s rules and his able to make his own decision without restriction. Through deep self-examination, he comes to his own conclusions, unaltered by the accepted, and often deceitful, rules and values of Southern culture. There was much controversy about the ending. Was he actually running away? By the novels end, Huck has learned to “read” the world around him, to distinguish the good, the bad, right, wrong, menace, friend, and much more. Near the end Huck says, “… because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilze me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.” (296). It should be no surprise that Huck wants to flee society and civilization when he has a better understanding of how the world should be. Bollinger says, “The society in which Huck lives is so defined by the dominant code of justice that Huck most leave these communities to find a space to develop the alternate moral code of care he has envisioned.” Huck’s acceptance of the world leads him to escape.
In addition, the fight between the two families tainted Huck’s views of the world also. On the raft Huck is free forms society’s rules and his able to make his own decision without restriction. Through deep self-examination, he comes to his own conclusions, unaltered by the accepted, and often deceitful, rules and values of Southern culture. There was much controversy about the ending. Was he actually running away? By the novels end, Huck has learned to “read” the world around him, to distinguish the good, the bad, right, wrong, menace, friend, and much more. Near the end Huck says, “… because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilze me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.” (296). It should be no surprise that Huck wants to flee society and civilization when he has a better understanding of how the world should be. Bollinger says, “The society in which Huck lives is so defined by the dominant code of justice that Huck most leave these communities to find a space to develop the alternate moral code of care he has envisioned.” Huck’s acceptance of the world leads him to escape.