Using Huckleberry Finn as our first piece of longer fiction we today continued to study how character and setting contribute to the overall meaning of the novel.Specifically, we are studying this novel as particularly American and examining the moral evolution of Huck Finn as representative off the creation of a new American ethos. Regarding setting, we noted textual passages representing the cultural and religious hypocrisy of society or what Huck calls "sivilization" and contrasted it with the philosophical freedom of the river and the raft . On land we see conmen, and violence whereas on the raft Huck recognizes that Jim, a runaway slave, is as human as he is and hence Huck rebels agains the societal norm that views slaves as objects.