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Huckleberry Finn Talent Quotes

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Talent or Luck? Is Huckleberry Finn talented or just lucky? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn is an ingenious boy because he is quick witted, cunning, and very adaptable. Huckleberry Finn shows he is quick witted when he forgot the name of the alias he chose, but thought of a way to trick one of the kids into spelling his name. … I had forgot what my name was. So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says: “Can you spell, Buck?” “Yes,” he says. “I bet you can’t spell my name,” says I. “I bet you what you dare I can,” says he. “All right,’ says I, ‘go ahead.” “G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-n--there now,” he says. “Well,” says I, “you done it…” (p. 99). Huckleberry Finn thought of a …show more content…

We’re in a hurry boy… Come, buckle to your paddle…” “… Say, boy, what’s the matter with your father?” “… It’s the-a-the well, it ain’t anything …show more content…

Huckleberry must change the way he lives as shown in this quote: “... I used to slide out and sleep in the woods sometimes, and so that was rest to me. I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit” (p. 15). Here Huckleberry is adaptable because he likes how his life was, but is learning to accept the new ways. Another example is when Pap kidnaps him and takes him to his cabin. Huckleberry must learn to live with Pap: “ The widow she found out where I was by and by, and she sent a man over to try to get a hold of me; but pap drove him off with a gun, and it warn’t long after that till I was used to being where I was, and liked it…” (p. 24). Huckleberry’s adaptive nature shows here because he was abruptly taken by Pap to live with him in a different environment than where he lives with Miss Watson and he ended up liking it. Huckleberry’s ability to be adaptive helps him survive his ever changing

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