While the boys would not actually kill members of one another’s family, Huck still panics and “was most ready to cry but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson – they could kill her” (Twain 9). When Huck joins Tom Sawyer and his gang, he worries he cannot join when the boys agree that if anyone in the gang does something terribly wrong, their families should be killed. Although Miss Watson is one of the few characters actually trying to give Huck a better life, Huck remains ungrateful for her lessons and everything she does for his betterment. Huck does not enjoy the idea of Miss Watson’s heaven and because he wants to get away from her life of “sivilization,” and he even says he would rather go to hell. Huck is ungrateful for these lessons and when told about heaven and hell, he decides he would rather go to hell because “I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it” (Twain 4). Miss Watson teaches Huck lessons in manners, reading and religion. In the exposition of the story, Huck’s lack of morality is shown through his ingratitude for the adult characters that watch over him like Miss Watson and Jim.
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