Throughout the classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain, we see a lot of moral development with the main character Huckleberry Finn. Throughout the story, Huck's friendships greatly influence his moral identity. Throughout the series of events that unfold around our main character, Huck Finn, we see tremendous moral advancements in his thinking, influenced by the friendships he makes during his journey. He begins the book as a young-at-heart individual with no moral sense other than what has been imprinted on him and ends as an autonomous individual. Through the friendships he forms with Tom Sawyer, Jim, the Duke, and the King, we see great moral leaps with Huck. At the beginning of the book, Huck carelessly goes about his life and doesn't seem to care about other people except that it would affect him. This is clearly demonstrated when Huck and the Tom Sawyer gang propose to Miss Watson because “I was ready to cry; but suddenly I found a way, and so I offered [the gang] Miss Watson – they might kill her” (6). This is when Huck offers her to the gang in case he spills the beans on the gang because he had no real family to give up. This clearly shows that Huck has no respect for other people's lives and is willing to throw someone who is good to him under the bus just so he can join a gang with his friends. A similar event happened when he was sneaking his way to the gang meeting and ran into Jim. “When we were ten feet away, Tom whispered to me and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun; but I said no, he might wake up and make noise, and then they would find out that I didn't warn” (4). This event shows Hucks reasoning not to do something ... middle of paper ... radically different mindset than before where he couldn't stop lying left and right to protect him and Jim but now he sees that telling the truth might be the best option. This shows that friendship with the Duke and King had a strong positive effect on Huck's morality. Throughout the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we see enormous moral development that is largely furthered by the friendships he forms. made throughout his journey. Through his friendships with Tom Sawyer, Jim, and The Duke and King, we see Huck really grow as a person. This is clearly demonstrated by the events that unfold in which Huck recklessly throws away lives, returns to save a friend, to completely changing his philosophy of stealing from others. Overall with the friendships we see Huck progress morally and become a better person because of it..