The main character of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn undergoes a moral revolution because he has to make life-changing decisions throughout the novel. At the beginning of the book, Huck basically has no morals because he grew up in a household with a drunken father. Fortunately, Huck is eventually aided by the guidance of Jim, a runaway slave who joins him on his flight from civilization and helps Huck gain his own sense of morality. Throughout Huck's adventures, he is put into many positions where he must look within himself and use his own judgment to make important decisions that will affect his morals for the rest of his life.
Miss Watson and the widow have been granted custody of Huck, an impolite and wild boy who has little morals due to his rearing. Huck's role model at this time is Tom Sawyer, a civilized troublemaker who wants to start a gang. If a boy desires to join this gang, they have to agree to murder their own families as punishment for breaking the rules. One of the boys points out that Huck doesn’t have a family to murder so they had to figure out what they were going to do. “They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or something to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others. Well, nobody could think of anything to do- everybody was stumped, and set still. I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson-they could kill her” (17-18). This is the lowest point of his morals in the book. It’s from here that the reader can see the end of Huck’s spiral down and the start of his exponential growth as a person.
