We Teach Ourselves In his book Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows very clearly how he feels about society. He shows us that he looks down on the morals in society and in the church. The lessons that can be learned from community are not ones that Twain agrees with. In his article, The Lowest Animal, he states that he feels that we as humans are low and dirty, with few morals. In Huckleberry Finn, we see how Huck learns not from following the ways of society, but by seeing the flaws and learning from them. Huck gains his morals on his adventures with Jim. Throughout the book we learn that he would not have gained the same morals if he had stayed a part of society. His morals are ones that everybody should have but because of the time period, racism and sexism were seen as normal. On Huck’s adventures he starts to see Jim as “white on the inside” which may …show more content…
If Huck would have stayed living with Mrs. Watson, he may not have come to the realization that slaves are equal to everybody else. In society, they teach that people of color are not equal to whites. Huck is influenced by his surroundings. When huck is away from society he shows us what he has learned by saying, “ I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking- thinking how good it was that all this happened so, and how near I came to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time,... talking, and singing,