Use these questions and prompts to guide you in your research of morality in the novel. Don't be satisfied with the clean, easy answer . . . push your thinking further to a genuine study of morality. From your observations of morality in various situations, what comments do you want to make? Are you getting a definite idea of Twain's position, or is he ambiguous (offering the reader the chance to decide on moral issues)? Note any particularly hot quotations that capture your point.

• Consider the issue of freedom of the individual in a democratic society versus the demands and constraints of that society. Identify as many scenes and situations as you can that deal with this issue.
• At what point is the individual free to counter the requirements, moral code, or restrictions of society? At what point MUST s/he do so?
• What character/s seem most moral to you?
• What character/s seem the most immoral?
• Who seems to have the most admirable moral code?
• Consider the differences between Huck's and the Widow Douglas's moral code.