While reading Huckleberry Finn, you can come across lots of key moments that seem funny and are critical of the current environment where Huck grows up. We can see this when Mark Twain attempts to satirize the society of the time period which Huckleberry Finn is written in. The quote “a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat”, describes Huck’s personal problems with things like religion, racism and slavery. His “deformed mind” represents the environment in which he was raised, also representing the actions and thoughts of southern society before the Civil War. However, his “sound heart” is meant to represent the right moral path that is inside many people, which is suppressed because of a need to conform to societal pressures. It is very easy to ignore the morally correct path when the opposite is the path that is supported or simply legal. Huck states lots of times that he is going to hell for helping free Jim from slavery, but because Jim has been a true friend and protected to him, going to hell was worth it, “Alright, I’ll go to Hell!”. In fact he seems to reject heaven, thinking that heaven is not where the really morally correct individuals go “I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going”, with, as stated before, morality being a part of the “sound heart” rather that the “deformed conscience”. A comically hypocritical character in the book appears in the form of Widow Douglas, who, as a religious elderly southern woman, is supposed to be the picture of morality, and yet, she always contradicts her supposedly proper nature by calling Huck bad names, “She also called me a lot of other names too” , and smoking tobacco after just lecturing Huck on what kind of behavior a faithful Christian should have. Using this funny irony, Mark Twain is satirizing the Widow, and this makes the audience think about the values d