The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is based on a young boy's age in Missouri in the mid-1800s. The adventures Huck Finn works into while floating down. The Mississippi River can depict many serious issues 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
             Huck's moral evolution begins before he ever sets foot on the raft down the Mississippi. His mother is deceased, while his father customarily "sleeps with the pigs" 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 two women's constraining and lonely life in store for him.
             It is after Huck Finn escapes to Jackson Island that he meets the most influential. The character of the novel, Jim. Huck's conscience reminds him that he is a "low-down and dirty abolitionist" for helping Jim run away from his owner, but Huck does not see that he is on the same path for freedom as Jim. A morality check comes across Huck as he stumbles onto the criminals on the steamboat. Huck shows character development by tricking the watchman into going back to the boat to save the robbers. Even though they are thieves and plan to commit murder, Huck still feels that their deaths would be too great of a punishment. Some may see Huck's reaction as crooked, but, unlike most of society, Huck Finn sees the good in people and attempts to help them with sincerity and compassion.
             The con man's attempt to mascarade as the brothers of the late Peter Wilks is an An important part of Huck's development.
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