Moral Growth of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel by Mark Twain and the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, takes place along the Mississippi River during the late 1830s. Huckleberry Finn stages his death to escape his abusive, alcoholic father. While he is away, Jim, a black man, catches up to him, and they become friends. Society's view of blacks is that they are inferior to whites, and to help …
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…what society was right or what his true conscience was telling him. Huck's morality grows throughout the novel, from Huck doing what society has taught him to do towards blacks, to going against the lessons of society and doing what he feels is right. During the novel, Huck had to decide what side he was going to take, either society's view or what he thinks is right, he picks what is handiest at the time.