Huck Finn-deformed conscience

One major influence in Huck's life would be the people he grew up around. For example he has been taught that black people aren't equal to white people and that they should never be treated the same as white people. He also thought that they have different feelings than white people until he is around Jim more. One time Huck got to thinking about what he was doing by helping Jim escape, and that got on his conscience about how he was doing a horrible thing and was going to hell for it, which is ironic because we know that in actuality he was doing the best thing possible any morally right person would do. His father has also deformed his conscience because he grew up with his father and watched him do and say things that weren't right, but how was Huck to know any different? One example would be when Huck was going to take something and he called it "borrowing" because that is what his father always had said. Tom explained to Huck that it was actually stealing, not borrowing. There are many things that he has picked up from his father that he doesn't actually realize because he thought they were okay.

I believe that these influences are still in the world today. People don't even realize how much society and family members influence our everyday life. We watch everyone around us and learn from them what is right and what is wrong, even if their deceptions of right and wrong are wrong, and we know no different. People speak their mind all the time and we take all this information and store it into our own minds because we think it is right.

There are a lot of forces available to try and change the "deformed conscience" and there are also many more rights for black people. Before black people couldn't even do something without asking and now they are running for president and I think it is a wonderful thing that makes people realize they aren't any different than white people are. Of course, there are still racist people in the world today and they have their mind set about their beliefs because that is how they grew up, that is what they learned.