Huckleberry Finn Affected By Society

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Huckleberry Finn is greatly affected throughout the novel by society. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the society that was supposed to teach him, take care of him, and want him, deformed his conscience and taught him all the wrong things about slavery. He was taught that slaves are property, they don’t know anything, and that they are meant to be slaves. This is all wrong and no one told Huck that, and he had to figure it out on his own. Huck is “a sound heart on collision course with a deformed conscience”. Everyone that Huck was ever around taught him all he knew about slaves. The Widow Douglas tried to civilize Huck. She is a Christian who owns slaves. Miss Watson is Widow Douglass' sister and she is a Christian who