The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

Twain, an American writer and author of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, establishes in his book how a boy is “coming of age” through his applying of Huck’s personality towards Jim a slave with whom he has run away with. Huck is cautious through his traveling up the river in order to make sure that neither he or Jim get caught and taken back, but his most concern most of the time is Jim since he is a runaway slave who if caught will be taken back into slavery. In the 31st chapter of this book, Huck feels that he is doing wrong by stealing Jim from Miss Watson, and what consequences he might face if he does not turn back, but he displayed how he doesn't care happened to him. He then decides to proceed with adventure not caring what might happen to him if he keeps going, and this, therefore, displays how Huck has is maturing and is willing to accept the consequences in order to help Jim escape. In this way, Twain indicates how Huck has started “coming of age”.

Coming of age can be a difficult time, especially while having to deal with being swindled. Twain 's purpose of doing this is to show how during the coming of age you will be forced to make quick, often life changing, decisions in order to keep moving along in life. Huck knows the King and Duke mean no good going town to town looking for people who they can manipulate for money when he rambles, “These liars warn 't no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the main character Huck matures throughout the book due to a sense of growing morality and accepting responsibility for his actions. The character of Huckleberry Finn is introduced to the reader as a lower class, uneducated kid with no manners that is influenced by a greedy society. As the novel progresses Huck into a wonderful, strong character that has dug deep into what it means to be an individual, and by becoming mature, he has also escaped from the negative way society depicts African Americans.

The first indication of Huck's growing maturity was in Chapter 15. Huck and Jim are split because of a thick fog near Cairo, their destination. After many hours, Huck finally makes his

Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain portrays Huck as an immature 14 year old boy, living with his abusive father in a racist and restrictive society, that solves his problems by running away. Twain uses Huck and intricate diction to suggest a theme that running away from your problems is never the solution. As the book progresses so does Huck, every few chapters he morally evolves, although his mindset is stagnant when facing civilization.

Huckleberry Finn hasn’t had the best of time growing up. His father a drunk, and physically abusive, Huck had few role models. Most would expect him to turn out like his father. But, instead, against all odds. He clings to his childhood innocence. He is still persuadable and can be taught good. He keeps his mind open to new possibilities. Huck can and does change for the better by the end of the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.Huckleberry Finn is taken away by ‘Pap’ and is locked away. He later escapes by faking his death, and runs off trying to leave his father and past with his father behind. He runs into an old friend, Jim, who was a run away slave. This might not have been a good deal, but they struck off, showing Huck trusts other people, no matter how they look or act.

     The first indication of Huck’s growing maturity was in Chapter 15. Huck and Jim are split because of a thick fog near Cairo,

In the end Huck does show some maturity in realizing Jim as a person not just a slave. He no longer wants to be part of that civilization after everything he has gone through since running

This is made prominent when Jim discusses about his family with Huck. In which Jim explains to Huck about how guilty he feels about slapping his daughter, that is when Huck realizes, “And I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their,” (Twain 139). Towards the end of the novel Huck starts to perceive the fact African American are also human and the same as white people. Also demonstrating Huck developing new morals and maturing. In the beginning of the novel, Huck thought himself to be more superior to African Americans because he was white. As the book progressed, Huck came to realize that African Americans are equal and there is no superior group within the two. Also depicting Huck breaking away from his environmental and societal morals and developing his own, which also displays maturity and him growing as a character. Another archetype of Huck maturing was when he started to feel guilty about stealing Jim, also Miss. Watson’s slave, the women that taught him manners and gave him shelter. He felt as though he was deceiving her, however, when he thought about turning Jim in he realizes, “ Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, I’d feel bad- I’d feel just the same way I do now,” (Twain 83). In this part of the novel, Huck comes to realize what is right and what is wrong. In the beginning Huck was too immature to discriminate

Moving from a young boy to a man means more than just growing taller. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck, the main character, is often faced with challenges that teach him something new. Huck was born and raised in the south around the 1830s, when slavery was still legal. The lady Huck lives with, Miss Watson, constantly tries to make him “sivilized.” He never had a male role model that represented any manners so he rejects all her attempts. In order to run away from the stereotype of needing to be “sivilized,” Huck runs away with her slave, Jim. Huck begins by feeling remorseful for helping Jim, but as the story goes on his opinion begins to alter. Because Mark Twain does not believe becoming a man is based on being proper Huck runs from this idea and becomes his own person with his own beliefs.

During his journey with Jim, Huck begins to understand his own beliefs better. He comes across many people who test those beliefs and he grows internally because of it. When Huck and Jim discover The Walter Scott, a wrecked steam boat, Huck decides to go on and have an adventure. He discovers two robbers threatening to kill a third. As he?s leaving, Huck feels genuinely sorry for these robbers who are stranded on the wreck. The fact that he is able to feel badly for these terrible people shows that he is maturing. After he comes on land, Huck meets the Sheperdsons who show him the nature of human violence through their feud with the Grangerford family. Huck matures through witnessing the feud and also begins to comprehend the hypocrisy of religion:

Throughout history, and even into present times, racism appears as an all too common societal concern. From slavery and discrimination to unequal rights, African Americans’ long history of mistreatment led to the desire and craving for freedom. In Mark Twain’s adventure novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, such motives from pre-emancipation era African American slaves become evident. In the novel, the characters’ attempts to leave the shackled south for the non-restrained north in hopes of freedom become justified. By analyzing and understanding how society feels about African Americans based on the geographical locations of the Southern United States, the Mississippi River, and the Northern United States, the reader comprehends the influential drive behind the desire to escape racism.

We saw a glimpse of Huck’s maturity when he found a robbers stash of gold and had gained a lot of money from it. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do with it. The Widow Douglass and Miss. Watson were trying to civilize him and make him more of a gentlemen. In fear that his father would take his money, he convinces Judge Thatcher to take it all. Judge Thatcher was the town judge and was a close friend to Huck. Huck gave the money to Judge Thatcher because he trusted him to take care of it. This shows a growth of Huck’s maturity because he is somewhat standing up to his father by not letting him touch his money. Once his father found out that Huck gave away his fortune he was outraged. He then kidnapped Huck and locked him in a cabin Huck decided that the only way he would be able to escape would be to fake his own death. When he decided to fake his own death this showed us how he was thinking more maturely. Although

When I was in Kindergarden I got peer pressured into jumping off of one of the pieces of equipment on the playground. I ended up breaking my ankle. I’m going to tell you the story of how it all happened.

Essentially, the story is episodic, and with each important episode, the boyish Huck is entering the world of grown-ups. The incidents he goes through are a kind of initiation into manhood. For example, when he witnessed the mean-spirited fight in the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons episode, he wishes he ""¦hadn't ever come ashore that night, to see such things" (Twain, 134). He knows people are mean, not just to Blacks, but to each other, and this is part of his education while growing up a free boy in a crazy world.