Chapers 23-27

In this recent progression of the story Huck is troubled by the fraudulent behavior of the kings and starts to feel a moral obligation to end their swindling of innocent people. The significance of this is, Huck's consciously feels that he has a responsibility to not let the King and the Duke swindle the Girls out of their rightful inheritance. This is a totally new concept to Huck. In the past chapters Huck didn't seem to mind that the King and Duke were stealing peoples money because he believed that is what all Kings and Dukes did from what his books said, so it was completely natural for them to act like such. The change in Huck's thinking that what the King and Duke are doing is actually wrong and need to be stopped is evidence to support that Huck is actually maturing through his experiences on the river in both survival but more importantly morally and intellectually.