It is often thought that being born and raised into a stable, healthy environment during a teenager’s life will have a significant impact onto a child’s proper intellectual and moral education. However, being born and raised into an unhealthy and chaotic environment, one can only assume that the young teenager would have to come up with his own culture and teachings of what is right and wrong. This is explicitly demonstrated in the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by renown author Mark Twain. Huckleberry, the protagonist, is a young boy who comes from the lowest level of white trash society. As such, by analysing his childhood and the community he was raised in, by also studying the various actions that Huckleberry executes from his own choices, and by looking into his growing relationship with the various characters of the novel it is evident to the reader that Huckleberry Finn's moral ambiguity has been impacted by the environment he has grown from. …show more content…
From the beginning of the book, Huck emerges with an inferiority complex caused by the fact that his mother is deceased and the fact that his father is a very loud and abusive drunk and despises Huck for going to school and trying to be educated. Thus, one would assume that to help the poor boy, his community would come and provide aid to his family struggles at home. However, the district does not try to separate Huck from his father and his abusive tendencies, but instead attempts to rehabilitate the father to turn him into a better man, which proves to be unsuccessful as the book