The effects of the surrounding society in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

As it was put by British novelist Laurence Sterne, "No body, but he who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man's mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately puling in a contrary direction at the same time." One cannot help but agree with this statement, especially after reading Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this story, a young boy named Huckleberry …

…fully escape the values taught during earlier years of age, they can be offset, and a good and rightful choice can be made. The ideas of a book decades old, with the issues of long ago, still relate to modern society and teach us that being "sivilized" is not always the best thing, depending on our treatment of others and their feelings and the recognition of their humanity, despite a society that discriminates against them.