Mark Twain's
Mark Twain's novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", is based on a young boy growing up in Missouri in the mid-1800s. The adventures Huck Finn gets into while floating down the Mississippi River show many serious experiences that occur on the "dry land of civilization" better known as society. These events follow after the Civil War and are told through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn. He unknowingly develops morally from the influences surrounding him on his journey to personal freedom. Huck's moral development begins before he ever gets on the raft that takes him down the Mississippi. His mother is dead. His father is mainly drunk all the time. Huck grows up following his own rules until he moves in with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. These two women try to "sivilize" Huck by making him attend school, study religion, and act the way they think is the acceptable way to act. Huck's free spirited soul keeps him from accepting the lonely life these two women have in mind for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer's gang is not much more than children's games. Still, Huck thinks that Tom is superior to him because of his more favorable family background. Pap and "the kidnapping" play another bi
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Approximate Word count = 1310
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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