From Conformity to Manhood In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is the narrator. The character of Huck Finn was very different from the society he was born into. Mr. Twain uses Huck's open-mindedness as a window to let the book's humor, points, and morals shine through. Huck always takes things literally. This not only adds humor to the book, but also lets through some of the book's deeper messages. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn traces the story of a young man, Huck Finn, from conformity to the Southern way of thinking, to his own ideas about religion, wealth and slavery. In the first scenes of the book Huck struggles to understand Miss Watson's concepts of heaven and hell. He finds his harp-strumming vision of heaven boring and wants to be somewhere exciting. When Miss Watson tells Huck that he will get everything he prays for, he takes her literally and decides to pray for the fishing line, which he gets. But praying for fish hooks didn't seem to work, when he asks her to pray for him for fish hooks she calls him an idiot. These are both gentle jabs at Southern religion. Christianity is practiced by a very pious people, like Miss Watson, who can still treat their human slaves as property. This is a recurring theme in the book. Twain points out some of the absurd inconsistencies between Christianity and the way of life of most Southerners. Huck did not conform to the general way of thinking of society. When he is with the Widow and Miss Watson, he begins to change, but Pap takes him away and he returns to a much more practical lifestyle. Huck places very little value on the large sum of money he has in the bank, while he believes that smaller sums are more important. Six thousand dollars was a fortune at the time the book was written, but Huck, unlike the rest of his society, was not impressed. This is also due to his literal mentality. What did he need six thousand dollars for? He could use ten cents to buy some food, or five cents to buy some fishing line, but he didn't know what to do with large sums of money. Society placed value on wealth, ownership, and book learning.