Why Is Huckleberry Finn Wrong

The morality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about what is right and what is wrong. In the novel the reader can see the main character Huckleberry Finn struggle with deciding whether his decisions are right or wrong when it comes to tough decisions because Huck was taught what is wrong was good and what is good was wrong. The reader can see how Huckleberry Finn changes morally because of his decisions throughout the novel. The place of morality is of Huckleberry’s actions. We see where Huckleberry Finn gets his moral values from which is his personal values, inner thought, community, family, and even the church. Mark Twain privileges one's experiences and the community/society as where Huckleberry Finn gets his moral values from. Mark

Huck’s own experiences have shaped him morally because when he helps free Jim he starts to notice that slavery is wrong, even though everybody around him thinks it’s the right thing. Another experience was when Huckleberry Finn plays a trick on Jim which was that he told Jim that he had dreamt of them separating and getting lost in the fog. Then Huckleberry Finn tells Jim he was just playing around and Jim then feels sad and is hurt that Huck would ever play a trick on old Jim. Huck then feels like a horrible person and works up the courage to say sorry even if though he would never say sorry to a slave and promised that he would not play a trick on Jim again. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger - but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d knowed it would make him feel that way”(135). The community also shapes Huckleberry Finn’s moral values because the community/society decides what morals are right to follow and which are wrong. Like how slavery is right to the community and Huck thought at first that it was right as well, but through his own experiences he figured out that slavery is wrong. The family doesn’t really shape Huckleberry Finn’s moral values because the family just confuses

The morality is shown through the actions of Huckleberry Finn. Huck makes right and wrong choices and it changes him morally because in the beginning he thought slavery was okay and slaves should be treated the way they were and through his experiences he now sees that slavery is wrong. These choices were made because his moral values were influenced by his own experiences, the family, the community/society, and the church. Mark Twain privileges Huckleberry Finn’s actions and the community/society as where he gets his moral values from. Mark Twain mocks the church by showing that Huck thinks he knows how it works but in reality he