<span>Answer:
Huck must examine his conscience throughout the story. Huck's own value system often comes in conflict with Southern white views on issues like racism and organized religion. Huck not only longs to free himself from the physical confines of his being but from the social confines of a very homogenous, and ignorant, status-quo,
"I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum – but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le's know all about it."</span>
What the excerpt is trying to convey is that, with the current generation we are so preoccupied with own self-interests. We value vanity, self and glory without considering the individuals we face as we walk, as we talk and as we engage. The passage reinstates that individuals have to get back and introspect about not their own gratifications and egotistical desires but the welfare with others, even though it is innate and inevitable that we always point to the ego.
