Aesop's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Starting from the moment children are born, stores ridden with morals and ethics get thrown their way. For example, the ever-popular story of “The Hare and The Tortoise” written by Aesop which includes the well-known moral that goes; slow and steady wins the race. Mark Twain claims in his Novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “Persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished”. Twain makes a bold claim, but is it a true one? Mark Twain teaches morals through the character of Huck Finn and the idea that drinking leads to poor decision making skills.
Twain shows how Huck evolves as a character to make better decisions that teach morals. For example, Huck protects Jim by not revealing his true identity by fabricating a story of how