The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts off in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, a fictional town on the Mississippi River. It takes place in the early 1800’s, a time before the civil war when societal norms were much different than today’s. The story takes place and is “written” from the point of view of Huckleberry Finn, a 13 year old boy who struggles with fitting into the societal norms that are expected of him. When we are first introduced into the story, Huck is living under the guardianship of two sisters, Miss Watson and Widow Douglas. They took him in, educated him, and showed him religion in an attempt to civilize him. As nicely as they treated him though he never liked a civil life or nice clothes, but instead like
