Moral Development and Education in Relation to Huckleberry Finn

 

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Moral Development and Education in Relation to Huckleberry Finn
	Morality is a term used to refer to a system of values principles, beliefs and code of conduct, which governs human interactions within a community setting. Morality is a system that enables individual to determine the right thing to do in different situations. According to Robert Coles, who is a respected scholar in the field of the inner working of children, the moral lives of children is developed during their infant years as they learn about the good and the profane (Killen, Melanie and Smentana 2).  The moral development of a child is highly affected by the environment, including social association, parent and immediate family members. However, the child has to go through a learning process, which affects the moral development. This paper is an analysis of the relationship that exists between education and moral development and its relation to the Huck Finn novel.
	Holistic education, which are the early years of child education with the parents and the family, has been found to have a significant impact on cognitive, emotional, social, and moral development of the children. In the community, moral aspects of brining up children and education are not well emphasized compared to the past (Killen, Melanie and Smentana 2). This causes the children to be less prepared in dealing with situations and challenges of life. Lack of moral education during the development of children can be replaced (overtaken) by what they watch in the media and mainly by their peers where they form their moral framework and how they view the world.
	Moral education has become a crucial topic of discussion in the field of education most of the social concerns can be said to be moral in nature, and they have intricate beginnings An Overview of (Moral Development and Moral Education, p.1). In the novel done by Twain (the adventures of huckleberry Finn), the narrator of the novel (Huck) does not have formal education. A lot of decisions and rules that he make are based on what he learns as he takes the journey down the Mississippi after escaping “the civilized society”.
	The adventures of huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain. It has been boldly measured to be one of the prominent American novels of all time. The novel was published in England December 1884 and the United States in 1885 (Twain, p.2). The novel (adventures of huckleberry Finn) starts by introducing us with the events of the novel before it “the adventures of Tom Sawyer”. Both novels have a similar setting in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri that lies on the banks of Mississippi river. This essay will explore relationships (nature and education) in the adventures of huckleberry Finn.
	This timeless classic has set a tone for other American literature to emulate the story creates a new window focusing the lives of Americans people before the civil war. The teachings and lessons contained in this novel give a reader a broad understanding of the experience along the Mississippi river 200 years ago. The book is full of exciting activities that include:  adventure, friendship deceitfulness more so racism and slavery that are the key issues in the novel (adventures of Huckleberry, p.3).

	According to Killen and Judith(p.461) moral sensitivity is the foremost constituent of moral implementation and most people agree that education, as well as social environment are a necessity in tuning and turning moral emotions and sensitivity. In the novel, (the adventures of huckleberry Finn), Twain reveals the double standards of slavery  as well as  how racism distorts the oppressors as much as it does to the victims who are oppressed. Twain’s interpretation of slavery is a figurative deception of the black community in the United States way after the eradication of slavery. He also illustrates the society that surrounds Huck (narrator of the story) as little or more than a set of degraded rules and precepts that confronts logic. In the novel, Huck destructs the morals and percepts of the society that treats him like an outsider and fails to shelter him from abuse.
	The narrator and the protagonist of the novel “Huckleberry Finn” is a thirteen-year-old son of a local drunk man of St.  Petersburg, Missouri a small city on the Mississippi river. He was frequently forced to survive on his own. Huck was intelligent, thoughtful, and able to come to his own conclusions about pertinent issues even if his decisions contradicted the society norms. According to Rodgers, moral judgment is the ability to interpret and solve complicated moral dilemmas. Huck was able to distinguish between real and hypothetical issues for instance he choose to help his friend Jim whom the “civilized society” regarded him as a property (slave).
	Moral motivation (commitment and focus) is one of the most prominent aspects of moral identity.  Most Children acquire this act from the