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Huck Finn Character Development Essay

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As the novel progresses, Huck starts developing as a mature young character by showing some sense of morality because he is now aware of how the duke and the dauphin have pretended all this time. For the first time, he chooses to challenge and expose the duke and the dauphin by preventing the malicious and fake schemes of these men to continue. The first actual action that Huck seem to take is his acquisition of the $6,000 in gold, which he puts on Wilks 's coffin. Despite his own development as a "mature" young boy, he makes every effort to try to understand the contradictory messages he gets from his personal experiences and from society. This can be seen when Huck does not give the money that he took from the duke and the dauphin back to the Wilks sisters as soon as possible. …show more content…

The reason why Huck discloses this information to Mary Jane is about Huck 's understandable predicament with the assumptions and attitudes that make the long-standing slavery and racism in the South difficult to overthrow at that moment. However, Huck does not convey the impression to feel bad that Mary Jane is upset about such information. In the end, the funeral scene has a great impact on Huck 's observations about the human race and human nature, while he meditates on the future of the money that he has put away in the

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