"The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out." These words were spoken by Huck Finn in the beginning of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. In saying this, Huck elucidates how at his point in his life, he lives with the Widow Douglas who has taken care of him in ways he is not used to. The Widow is giving him a respectable upbringing, one that Huck does not care for. His father was the drunk of the town he lived in and was basically abandoned until the Widow took him in. Due to his distain for the way he was...