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 …showed first 75 words of 1208 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1208 total…were times when Huck made the wrong decisions, but he learns that growning up is full of mistakes, but that he learns from his mistakes. Our society has come a long way since the Civil War. It is important to realize that people, like the characters of Jim and Huckleberry Finn, have helped make the idea of freedom available to everyone who "needs a harbor from the dry land of civilization" better known as society.