The families follow their own code of behavior, unable to remember the original court case and the reason for the feud. Discuss feuds and frontier justice as they impact Huck's growing sense of right and wrong.

“What was the trouble about, Buck? –land? ” “I reckon maybe – I don’t know...pa knows I reckon, and some other old folks; but they don’t know, now, what the row was about in the first place”

In this quote we see the futility of the feud. No one remembers what it was about or why they're fighting, in fact there's no reason to fight. Frontier justice was just that..... you do something wrong.... you're going to get punished. Grudges ran rampant, and everyone's initial reaction is to fight. The familes act like five year old boys...... unfortunately, the violence is adult violence.