Huck's ideas about people were formed by the white society in which he lived.

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Here is part of the story after Huck decides he must do this.

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Huck knows that important people believe slavery is natural, the law of God.

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They objected to the personality of Huck -- a rough,dirty and disobedient boy.

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Twain tells us more through Huck's voice than Huck himself knows.

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Huck's nature is good, but he has no idea of it.

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Huck's situation has freed him from the restrictions of society.

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Huck is a poor child, without a mother or home.

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Tom Sawyer's good friend is Huckleberry,or "Huck." Finn.

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He smokes tobacco. Huck runs away from home.

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Huck's moral search is part of Twain's humor.

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