learn moral values while living with the widow "but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, an no decent body would do it." (Twain 71). Huck matured a great deal while he stayed at the Grangerfords. During his short stay with the family, he experienced the cruelty of humans through fighting and death. Unquestionably the Grangerfords taught Huck the strong emotions of love, hate, and sorrow. He found a boy his own age yearn to kill when he asked Buck what a Shepherdson had done to him "Why, nothing-only it's account of the feud." (Twain 111). Buck's death made him realize how fragile life is and how awful war is. In conclusion, all the people and events on Huck's journey change his life and way of thinking. At the beginning of the book, Huck is a rowdy, young, southern boy who has very little respect for slaves and has an "immortality of youth" way of thinking. By the end of the book, Huck respects slaves because of his friendship with Jim, he realizes how fragile life is because of his brushes with death, gains many moral values, and it is apparent that he has matured greatly since the beginning of the novel....
