Reality is different in every society and for every person. It is different because each person has different outlooks on things. Reality is what each person believes. A perfect example of the question of what is true and what is not is religion. What each person believes, how he/she interprets things, and how he/she reasons is different, but people who don't block themselves from reasoning and experience, come closest to reality. Your religion is dependent upon how you reason and is dependant upon your society, so if you don't block your mind and your senses, your religion is the real truth for you. Since the truth is different in every society to find out the truth, if nothing is what it appears to be, is to judge by combining what you see, hear, feel, and experience. This topic is illustrated in the book Huckleberry Finn.
Like everybody else, Huck first based his conclusions on what he saw and heard. Huck saw that his aunt was a nice lady who only wanted good for him. He saw that his aunt perfectly fitted their society, "The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time, when you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them After super she got out her book and learned me about Moses and Bulrushers;" (pg. 2). His aunt cared about him and Huck realized that, "The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me- (pg. 1). Widow Douglas" sister, Miss. Watson, is also portrayed as a good, nice, and well-behaved character. Even though in appearance Miss. Watson is shown as a good character, Mark Twain doesn't point out in the beginning that she feels any sympathy for the slaves. Mark Twain does not pointed out that Miss. Watson thinks that slaves are the same people who are just being exploited by other people. Mark Twain illustrates Miss.