Huckleberry Finn is not a static character, but rather a voluble and changeable because of his moral development and maturation through the novel. Inside Huck is an inner longing to achieve something that is morally sound. When his morals developed the change in Huck's morals is shown very natural, as if Huck by nature is a good person.
             At the beginning of the novel, Huck, feels stealing is acceptable and necessary. Huck's father taught him, "Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the Widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it" (Twain 71). Huck Finn accepts his father's concepts about "borrowing" things, even with what the widow tells him. This doesn't demonstrate good moral decision making, but yet is based on an inner longing to achieve a goal which is morally sound. In chapter two Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer steal candles from Ms. Watson, but they leave five cents on the table for pay, "[...] so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay" (15). Huck Finn starts to develop morally and pays for things he used to "borrow," thus showing a change in his moral concepts. With the Wilks sisters Huckleberry suffers an extreme change. This change is shown when the Duke and King were trying to swindle a group of orphaned girls. If the Duke and King were able to swindle them, the Wilk's fate will be dead and desolation. They could loss their house, their money, lands, and virginity, but Huck steals the money to prohibit the crime.
             I had it out of there before they was half-way downstairs. I groped along up to my cubby, and hid it there till I could get a chance to do better. I judge I better hid it outside of the house somewheres, because if they missed it they would give the house a good ransacking: I knowed that very well (176).
             Huck realizes that stealing is wrong, and it demonstrates...