Examples Of Sivilized In Huckleberry Finn

“Sivilized” in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows a completely different world from today. That being said, it still shows some aspects of modern society. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim try to escape to freedom most of the book. There is lots of open racism, being that the time period was the 1800s. Being civilized did not simply mean that you were prim and proper and said your prayers daily. It also meant that you were obligated to turn in a runaway slave. At the very end of the book Huck says, “Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before” (296). Throughout the book, Huck constantly battles society and their

Not because of his moral obligations, but because he got bored. One could assume that he went from stage three in Kohlberg’s stages to stage two. This does not necessarily mean that he digressed in development, but that he is defying society’s standards, society in this case being the gang. Huck continues to grow throughout the book, and eventually reaches stage five. When he and Jim encounter the “Duke” and “King”. Huck states that it “didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all” (127). Both Huck and Jim can clearly tell that they are frauds, and for several chapters heed to their every whim just to keep the social balance and to not get beat up by them. In the end of the book, Huck has reached his moral peak, and completely goes against what society tells him. He has written a letter to turn in Jim, but instead of going with the civilized way to go about life, he destroys the letter. He decided that his own morals are stronger than his need/want to be like society. Even though society is telling him that it is wrong legally and spiritually, Huck believes that he is correct in not turning in Jim. Huck defies all social standards and says, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” (218). This is his final “forget you” to society. His morals have won out against the pressure of wanting to fit in or to do his own thing without a care for