Alex, 

     You have a good strong thesis for the paper in your first paragraph.  
   I think your conclusions are exactly right.  But there are a few other passages that 
   you don't consider where Huck talks about how he has to overcome his conscience to 
   do something his heart knows is right.  It would have been good, for instance, to 
   look in detail at the passage on page 66 where Huck is examining his conscience to 
   try to understand why it is telling him what he is doing with Jim is wrong.  You
   might have used what he said in that conversation with himself to illustrate exactly 
   how the "deformation" arose from Huck's life with Miss Watson and how the pangs of 
   conscience he feels are exactly like what we expect from a person having a moral 
   quandary.  The real pain he feels at these moments is what makes it so powerful: He 
   feels genuinely bad for making what we know is the right choice because he thinks it
   is the wrong choice, based on his upbringing.  It would have been good to show 
   more of exactly how that plays out rather than just describing this in general terms.  
   It's interesting that in fact in almost every (maybe every?) time Huck uses the word 
   "conscience," Twain is showing a new step in this development, so you might have 
   traced that progression in more detail. 
   
     Your writing is generally very good, but there are a few slips.   In the third line, 
   of the first paragraph, "out-ways" should be "outweighs" -- metaphorically,
   when something outweighs something else, it "weighs more" in determining
   the conclusion. One other place I wanted to point out is this sentence from
   page 4:  "It allows the reader to understand, through satire, irony, and an
   average boy in the south, that the way society works isn’t necessarily the correct 
   way."  What you are saying is exactly right.  But the "and an average boy in the 
   south" does not really fit with the "satire" and "irony" at the beginning.  You
   could say "the experiences of an average boy in the south."  But that raises
   another question -- do we really want to say Huck is an "average boy?"  

   Content/Evidence -- A-

   Structure/Mechanics -- A-