It is the parents' job to raise their child. When the parents are present, they help the child grow. While growing physically, the child also grows more mature and loving towards their parents. However, if a parent leaves the family for any reason, that love and maturity towards the parent may begin to fade. Quickly, the child begins to grow bitter and hateful towards that parent that left them and did not help them as they were growing up. If that parent that once left for years decides to come back, the child's view of their parent is very different before he/she left. Similarly, the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is like that child in that it was once a loving and sweet, but then turns to bitter satire quickly as Mark Twain does not write his book for many years. This abandoned child represents Huck Finn's growth; he began as youngster with a mind like all others, but his mind and himself both matured and were influenced by the difficult actions he was forced to combat. Finn's mind was overtaken by morally correct views that made him grow more and more bitter, just like the tone, considering the immoral views of the Southern society he knew well, but still made him into a better human. The novel contains a change in Huck Finn's character which can be seen through his actions on the well-being of Jim and others in his new views of racism. Also, the novel itself contains a difference, going from a story of escape to a satire that mocks the idiotic and sophomoric views in the Southern society.
During the beginning chapters of the novel, Finn was a difficult child who was against any thought of being civilized. The effort to incorporate prayer and learning into his life were at first impossible, and the only thing on his mind seemed to be constantly opposing the beliefs of Widow Douglas and Ms. Watson. After the gangsters dispersed, a change in character began to start.
