Just a Thought...

Towards the end of chapter 13 Huck helps out the watchman and wishes the widow could see him because she would have been proud.   Huck says, "I wished the widow knowed about it.  I judged she would have been proud of me for helping these rapscallions"(Twain 68).  I don't know if this surprised anyone else but I was actually shocked that he wanted to make the widow proud.  He does not normally care about what other people do or trying to be a good person, all he really wants to do is just go out into the woods an do what he pleases.  I think that it is funny that the widow is trying to civilize him (which would mean he is not civilized yet) and then he tries and helps some "rapscallions" which could indicate people who are uncivilized.  Does Huck take after the widow?  Is he actually concerned with other things besides himself?  What do you guys think?