The theme of this book is Society has corrupted the term "civilize" to oppose moral values. Huckleberry Finn realizes this throughout the book and decides his own standards will oppose that of society because he believes what is deemed civilized is in fact, quite the opposite. In the beginning, widow Douglas has taken Huckleberry Finn as her son and civilizes him based on Society's standards and in the end, Aunt Sally plans on civilizing Huck but Huck mentions he has dealt with what Society calls civilized and what he calls civilized and has made up his mind as to what is right.
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