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Mark Twain in his novel Huckleberry Finn saterizes what family stands for. A family is essentially an effecient unit. There are providers and consumers. The providers are the parents raising their children to become respectable members of society. In an idealistic society, the society is composed of families that are effective and happy which therein lies the idealistic views of family. Twain takes a more realist side to the idea of family creating multiple instances in the novel of families that didn't end up perfectly. The first example would be that Huck's family is no longer a single unit his family has split up. When the family comes together with the arrival of his father it is still messed up becasue the father is not providing. Other instances are Widow Douglas and Miss Watson who both live by themselves, with no family. This could possibly be a reference to part of Twain's past or just a way for him to express his beliefs.