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Moral Development and Dilemmas of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is based on a young boy’s coming of age in Missouri of the mid-1800s. This story depicts many serious issues that occur on the “dry land of civilization” better known as society. As these somber events following the Civil War are told through the young eyes of Huckleberry Finn, he unknowingly develops morally from both the conforming and non-conforming influences surrounding him on his journey to freedom. Huck’s moral evolution begins before he ever sets foot on the raft down the Mississippi. His mother has died, and his father is constantly in a drunken state. Huck grows up following his own rules until he moves in with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Together, the women attempt to civilize Huck by making him attend school, study religion, and act in a way the women find socially acceptable. However, Huck’s free-spirited soul keeps him from joining the constraining and lonely life the two women have in store for him. The freedom Huck seeks in Tom Sawyer’s gang is nothing more than romantic child’s-play. Raiding a caravan of Arabs really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday school picnic, and the stolen “
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Approximate Word count = 2055
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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