Discuss the ways in which the Widow Douglas tries to civilize Huck in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

For most of his young life, Huck Finn has lived outside the bounds of domestic life; his only relative is a father, who is a violent drunk. As the novel begins, the young boy goes to live the Widow Douglas, a kind and caring woman. She hopes to try to "sivilize" Huck, as he puts it. Although he likes the Widow, he chafes against the novel experiences of a clean living place and the need to learn proper manners, keep regular hours, and stop smoking.
The Widow and her sister, Miss Watson, try to teach the unschooled Huck to read and write, which he finds "deadly dull." He is especially unconvinced by their efforts to instill religious doctrine, which seems highly suspect to the young pragmatist. When Miss Watson tells Huck about "the good place," where "all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing," he doesn't think much of it. "But," he adds, "I never said so."