Through out the history of literature, many great works illustrate a character who is an outsider to his society. This character serves to shed light on the values of their society. One such novel is Mark Twain's American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this great work, the main character Huck Finn is an struggles to live as an outcast in society. This conflict and its resolution aid in the development of three different themes.
             To begin with, one of the themes this conflict helps develop is that society's values and laws can be in conflict with higher moral values. One of the reason Huck is an "outsider" is because he does not like society's rules, regulations, and expectations. For the most part, he considers some of society's rules to be unjust. For example, Huck knows that he "better off" with the widow and not his father. His father is a drunkard man who is thinks that Huck should not be better than him, that Huck should not be able to know how to read when he could not. "The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him... it was a new judge... he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families..." (22). Because of this law Huck's guardian was Pap. This was in conflict with a moral value because it was all according the society's laws and in no way in reference to the well being of the child. In addition, Huck knows that he is supposed to "turn in" Jim as a runaway slave. "...because I had begun to get it through my head that he was almost free-and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn't get that out of my conscience..." Huck feels that he should do the right thing, according to his feelings, and not turn Jim. He keeps on considering that helping Jim is wrong, according to society. He has a inner struggle. Should he turn Jim in like society says he should, or should...