In Huckleberry Finn there is a middle line between the morals of the general public and the morals that Huck demonstrates as the narrator of Huckleberry Finn, which are constantly redefined each time Huck Finn struggles within of himself to make an important choice and each time he tries to understand, to a certain extent, everything that surrounds him. Exploring the river with Jim is in many ways an impending maturity, understanding for Huck, because it is only during his expeditions that he is confronted with the inevitability and possibility of making important choices and maturing his strong instinctive moral center. "So in two seconds we slid down the river, and it seemed so good to be free again and all alone on the big river, and no one to bother us." (Twain 29), it's a life he could get used to. Huck Finn hates the thought of being civilized and fears it deeply. This strong hatred is shown during his stay with the widow and Miss Watson. Huck clearly states that he does not want to conform to society. “The Widow Douglas took me for her son, and suffered him to civilize me… I returned to my old rags and my sugar barrel, and was free and satisfied.” (Two 11s). Huck rebels with everything he does and with every opportunity that comes his way against society and its constant pressure to bring him to civilization, against his belief that civilization is a loss of independence and that living in the open air without the supervision of an adult is the only thing that gives him the feeling of being uncivilized, and trying to be civilized takes him even further from that point. The idea of ​​civility in 1840s society is that of well-educated, Lord-fearing common people who do not question authority. “The widow rang a bell… middle of paper… in 1840, it was actually a very unwanted and even hated idea. No one would apologize to an African American; they were less than the white man. In conclusion, Huck Finn by Mark Twain is a story about society, social relationships and racism seen in the eyes of a young boy, Huck, and a slave, Jim. Huck Finn lives in a society characterized by a lot of dishonesty and racial intolerance, so slavery has been widely accepted and has even become a social norm. Society had a different measure of what it meant to be human and what social relationships were about. The antebellum South of the 1840s struggled very deeply with racism, society, and social relationships. Black people were treated badly, many people were disrespected, and everyone was covered in self-deception about what was really happening. It was best quoted by Jim "Human beings can be terribly cruel to one another" (Twain 116).