In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is uneducated, but through his adventures he proves to be more witty by outsmarting educated people throughout the novel. Huck didn't grow up in what you would consider a "proper home" and has a lack of education as a result. Huck's dad was the town drunk and for a short time, in his dad's absence, Huck was taken in by the Widow Douglas in an attempt to civilize him. The widow sent Huck to school and shortly after his admission he was forced to leave school due to the return of his food. Pap didn't treat Huck in any way like a father figure would treat his son: "I was bruised." (Twain 24) Dad beat Huck and locked him up every time he went out just to know that he wouldn't try to escape "He goes away so often too and locks me up" (Twain 24). Eventually, Huck grew tired of the abuse and staged his own murder. Huck escaped his dad, aiming to reach Cairo to freedom along the Mississippi River, not expecting all the adventures he would encounter along the way. Through Huck's adventures you will notice how his morality changes due to the people he meets along the way. The way Twain satirizes society's education and civility in the ways they handle their problems, theft, and drunkenness leads to revealing how, despite Huck's lack of education, his level of common sense is higher than that of an "educated person" and that Huck's ideas about right and wrong have changed since the beginning of the novel. Mark Twain begins the beginning of the novel by satirizing Huck's education with humor (Nyirubugara)." I was in school most of the time, and I only knew how to spell and read and write a little, and... half a page... without anything else, I learned that the best way to get along with people of your genre is to let them have their way. (Twain 126) The biggest events that led to Huck's greatest growth were when the king and the duke posed as two brothers and When the king handed Jim over. The event where the king and the duke posed as two brothers by Peter Wilk is when Huck began to realize the concept of right and wrong. Huck only participated in the king and duke's scams to protect Jim but once Huck developed a relationship with people, he began to realize his shortcomings in situations. When Huck realized that he and Jim were becoming friends, he was able to recognize that it was wrong of him to play tricks on his friends. Shortly after meeting Mary Jane Huck established a relationship with her because she also didn't like it when slaves were mistreated.