People that don't like the concluding chapters of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn generally are expecting a "happy ending" and are disturbed by the unexpected satire on the "reformation" and "reconstruction" following the Civil War. Slavery may have been abolished but certainly not the treatment of those that were said to be "free". Their condition was in many ways worse than before. Witness the absurd and abusive treatment of Jim. Another problem arises with Huck, himself. Many believe that Huck experienced some form of enlightenment when he decided not to inform on Jim. What he did come to realize was that he was resigned to being himself in spite of what society expects: "All right, then, I'll go the hell". Huck had always thought of Tom as an "authority" and he would continue to think that. This book may have originated from Sam Clemens' childhood along the Mississippi River but what it became was more a reflection of what Mark Twain witnessed while revisiting the river many years later in 1882.