Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Shows Different Ways of Growing Up

Huckleberry Finn was written somewhere between 1835 to 1845. During this time, the abolitionist movement really began to get moving. There were abolitionists before this, but people got sick of tolerating slavery and started to be against it at the beginning of the 1830’s. In response, Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn with Huck Finn being the main character. Huck’s thoughts went against the traditional person with the “normal” views on topics such as slavery. Huck was raised without any moral background. He had a drunken dad and no mom. Huck did things like ditch school or break a law here and there. His dad never brought him to places of worship his whole life. Huck raised himself, basically, because his dad was so drunk all the time.

In the beginning of the novel, Huckleberry doesn’t see slaves as equals he just views them as slaves until he starts to view Jim in a different light and sees him as an equal and a friend. Huck gets to know Jim personally and realizes that Jim has a family and people that he cares about who he was taken away from because of slavery and societies beliefs. This development is shown in chapter thirty-one when Huck realizes how much Jim means to him, “...and such-like time; and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was…” (Twain 206). Huckleberry remembers all of the good things that Jim has done for him while they’ve traveled together and he realizes what Jim means to him. Furthermore showing how Huck’s views have changed from just seeing Jim as another slave to seeing him as his friend and someone he cares for and wants to help. When Huck’s views on Jim change it shows that people really can

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain criticizes a “sivilized” society, by depicting those who are considered “civilized” to be deceiving. Huckleberry Finn, also referred to as Huck, is the protagonist and the narrator of the story. He is influenced by many, but makes decisions that contradict societal norms. As the story develops, Twain employs dramatic, situational, and cosmic irony, as Huck overcomes difficult situations throughout his journey with Jim; a slave.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, Twain shows how Huckleberry Finn grows as a person. He uses important parts of the story to show that Huck is willing to go against what he was taught as a child to do what he thinks is right. Twain uses parts in the story like when Huck did not turn Jim into the slave hunters, tries to save the murderers, and when he tells Mary Jane about the King and Duke to show that Huck has grow into a nobler person. These are used throughout the whole novel to show that Huck was growing and maturing, while learning what is noble even if it went against what he thought was right. All the things he learned as a child went out the window and he went with

In every man’s life he faces a time that defines his maturation from boyhood to manhood. This usually comes from a struggle that the boy faces in his life. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s defining moment of maturity is Huck’s struggle with Tom in helping Jim escape. Tom sends Huck and Jim through a wild adventure to free Jim because of his Romantic thinking. Tom represents society and its Romantic ideals while Huck struggles to break away from these and become his own realist individual. These Romantic ideas lead Huck into many dangerous situations that pit Huck and Jim as Realist individuals versus a society infused

Throughout the novel of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s morals fluctuate. With the mind of any average twelve year old, Huck shows massive moral growth by taking a stand to achieve the right within the wrong. Situations such lying to protect the runaway slave Jim, trying to get money to whom it rightfully belongs to, and trading his faith for another, illustrates the maturity in which Huck has gained. Although, throughout his journey, he displays signs of his adolescent behavior by going along with plans he knows well is wrong. Huck takes his first steps the maturity by lying to protect another.

Character Study: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Some say Huckleberry Finn was a leader, warrior, hero, and having a bold title of just that for the main character in the story, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’. I choose Huck Finn as my character because of his ability to be a grinder for what he believes in. The story of Huckleberry Finn is so fascinating to read about the way he took action to certain things and being the man he was set out to be. Huckleberry Finn is a playful, enterprising, mischievous and compassionate boy of about 13 years old.

The protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is the most remarkable character Mark Twain created in all his writings. Huck is both a symbol of the freedom of the natural man and an individual creature with a conscience and a basic sense of decency that are supposed to be the products of civilization. He is also a wild teenager who is at odds with society, religion, work, and even his own father, yet the reader never questions that Huck is a sensitive, loving human being who is in many respects superior to the figures of adult authority that try to surround him. For these reasons, Huck finds his closest friendships with boys his own age like Tom Sawyer or with outcasts from the society of his elders like the

It is believed that maturity derives from experience and not time. Every adolescent travels through their own individual experiences and as their perspective of society around them changes they begin to take on the qualities and traits of a mature adult. In the southern states, pre Civil War, such as Mississippi, an adolescent’s experience is complicated with society’s warped views of religion and slavery. These views take one through a battle of a societally deformed conscience versus a sound heart and if one emerges with a sound heart they have achieved a level of maturity. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a boy named Huck Finn, who was recently adopted by the Widow Douglas in an attempt to civilize him. Huck’s father reemerges after years away, kidnaps him so he can gain access to his six-thousand dollars.. To escape, Huck fakes his own death and with no desire to return to civilization, he takes off along the Mississippi River. He soon runs into Miss Watson 's runaway slave Jim and together they embark on a journey along the Mississippi River. Through his adventures along the Mississippi, Huck matures from a racist boy with a societally deformed conscience to a young man who shows independent thought, moral growth, and social responsibility.

Tom Sawyer plays a huge role in both Huckleberry Finn’s life and the book. His character allows the reader to see Huck’s increase of maturity throughout the story. Tom is the constant, his immaturity not changing from the beginning to the end of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while Huck is the changing variable. Tom’s head is in the clouds when we first meet his character. He imagines daring adventures of robbing Spanish merchants and rich Arabs, and we see Huck fantasizing over the same things as if they are reality. Tom’s justifies their actions constantly by saying “I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do,” (12). With Tom, everything has to be an adventure. Everything has to be a challenge to

Huckleberry Finn grew up in the midst of slavery and was adopted by two sisters the widow and a woman named miss Watson. Huck and his best friend Tom found twelve thousand dollars so he and his friend split it. Now that he has money he is supposed to stop living on the street and start learning to be a gentleman, but Huck has different ideas and spends most of his time avoiding baths and teaming up with Tom to punk people. Now that Huck is supposed to start being mature he decides that he should sign over all his money to Judge Thatcher so that it will gain interest every day.

Huckleberry Finn was an adventurous boy trying to find his freedom. In the story of Huckleberry Finn, a young boy runs away from his father; the town drunk. He then meets up with Jim; a slave owned by Mrs. Watson. The story takes place post war, and it’s all about Huck going on an adventure down the Mississippi River trying to find his freedom, as well as Jims. Along the way they come face to face with many problems such as the Duke and the King, the Phelps, and Tom Sawyer. Despite the time period, Huck sees Jim as a slave, a friend, and a Father.

The mind of Huckleberry Finn is in a constant battle with none other than itself, one side always choosing to debate against the other. Huckleberry Finn is a young boy that embarks on a perilous journey to save his friend Jim from enslavement in the fiction novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Throughout the story Huck encounters people that change the way he thinks, has a couple of major internal conflicts while floating down the Mississippi River, and makes a decision that sets him on a determined course no matter the consequences.

The first way Huck begins to view Jim is as a slave. During the 1800s, the time period that the novel takes place in, African-Americans were viewed by many as slaves who were less than human, and nothing more. It was also generally considered both morally and religiously wrong to view an African American as anything more than this. Thus, it is no surprise that Huckleberry Finn would view the African-American Jim as a slave because of the culture he was raised in, and we can see examples of how Huck views Jim this way throughout the novel. Towards the end of the novel, Jim is sold back into slavery by the con men the king and the duke. Because of this, Huck begins to

In the infamous novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, readers tend to question Huck´s view on the slave, Jim. Was he viewed as a friend? A slave? Or even the fatherly figure he´s missed out on throughout his childhood? The novel took place in Missouri before the civil war and was about a boy named Huck, who had been taken in by Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, who intended to teach him religion and proper manners. After being kidnapped by his father, he escapes his clutches by faking his death. Huck soon sets off on an adventure to help the widow's slave, Jim, escape up the Mississippi to the free states. The two go through many adventures together and Huck saves Jim multiple times and becomes his good friend. Soon Jim is caught and locked in a shed. Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to help Jim escape. In the end they find out that he is freed through Miss Watson's will when she passes. In the end Huck goes off on his own adventures. Huck views Jim in various ways, but in what ways does he view Jim? There are various moments in the book where Huck views Jim as a friend, slave, and father figure. Throughout the years of In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the main character, Huck portrays the African American character, Jim as a friend, slave, and father figure throughout the novel.