In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain there are incidences where Huck is deceived or Huck deceives somebody else, but this deception takes place only on land. At the beginning of this novel Huck is a deviant young boy who, after he sees how his deception affects others and how others are affected by deception, becomes a mature and responsible young man who can more clearly distinguish the difference between right and wrong. While Huck is adventuring down the Mississippi River he has a faithful companion, the Widow Douglas's runaway slave, Jim, who is completely upfront and open with Huck, which instigates Huck to be the same towards Jim. On the raft Huck is exposed environment unlike one he has ever known, an environment completely opposite the one he lived in on land. Therefore, the difference between the land and the river is obvious. On the...