In Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the author constructs a code of conduct for each individual character based on that character`s treatment by society and his personal experience. A good example of this would be, Huck Finn, the main perpetrator who has a great lacking in parental guidance. Even though Huck is a reliable and kind character, he endures pain and humiliation at the hands of his father. He has misguidedly been taught racism and to steal, but also learns to strive to be better than Pap through ongoing dilemmas. Huck`s father, Pap, is a racist. Pap cannot handle the idea of black people knowing more than he does. He complains ``here was a free nigger, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain`t a man in that town that`s got as fine clothes as what he had.. They said he was a p`fessor in a collage, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the worst. They said he could VOTE when he was at home ¦ Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to?.... but when they told me there was a state in this country where they`d let that nigger vote, I deemed out. I says I`ll never vote again`` (24-25). Pap is so irritated that a black person is educated, well-dressed, is over all better than him, and allowed to participate in the political process that he refuses vote; demonstrating his hate. It is believed our conscience is formed by the society we grow up in. In Huck's case, a society that views slaves inhumanly with a judgemental, influential, racist father. Pap's behaviour greatly impacts Huck. It confuses his sense of wrong and right due to the fact that he has been witnessing it his whole life. Huck`s conscience says ``What had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you, that you