"The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn" - Are the decisions Huck makes moral and just?

As people grow, they go through experiences and make choices that build their moral character over time. These experiences shape a person's qualities and expresses who they are as an individual. They have many people to teach them the rights and wrongs of society and civilization, but in the end they must figure out who they are and what they believe in on their own.

Throughout the novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", by Mark Twain, Huck is put into numerous situations where he must look within himself and use his own judgment to make decisions that will affect the morals of which Huck will carry with him throughout his life and can be proud of. He must decode whether or not it is worth it for him to sacrifice his pride to make the just and moral decision.

Huck looks up to a boy named Tom Sawyer who has decided he is going to start a gang.

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In order for one to become a member, they must consent to the murdering of their families if they break the rules of the gang. It was at this time that one of the boys realized that Huck did not have a real family. "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." (21; ch 2) At this moment, Huck is at the peak of his immorality. A person with morals and pride would not willingly...