Maturity does not have an Age To be a kid doesn't mean you cannot do a big change and at the same time mature and fight for your ideas. The novel “The Adventures the Huckleberry Finn” is about a salvage, incredible, and friendly adventure that Huck had with his friend Jim around the Mississippi River looking for Jim’s freedom. The maturity of Huck is related to coming of age because he shows a lot confident for challenging society and fighting for freedom. Huck’s shows he is more mature for his age because he is challenging society “Honest unjust I will people would call me a low down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum-but that don’t make no difference.i ain't agoing to tell, and I ain't agoing…” (Twain 32) Here is when Huck stared …show more content…
“Now was the first time I begun to worry about the men-I reckon I hadn’t-had time to before I begun think how dreadful it was, to myself, there ain't no telling but might come to be murdered myself yet, and then how Would I like it?” This is the first time Huck question himself about the cause and effect of the other people. After he realized that he could now make a plan in order to save lives even though it’s considered a murder. “I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way” (Twain 65). Huck felt terrible for playing a trick to Jim because now he considers Jim as a human too. This is when Huck started to admit that what he was doing was wrong because he started to analyze how his actions were affecting other people. “I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks, though I ain’t had no experience…” (Twain 141). Here is when Huck shows the major progress of his journey to maturity. He finally realizes that o tell a lie is wrong because he is going to hurt more than telling the truth at first, is better to tell the truth even when it hurts. Huck's maturity is based in his hard experience throughout the …show more content…
“It was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer, I lit out.” (Twain 1).In this quote, the reader can notice that he feels like a prisoner in widow Dougla’s house because of her proper and religious ways of saying her feelings. This shows Huck wanted to be able to do whatever he wanted to. “We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes let us” (Twain 118). This is an expression that proves that Jim and Huck wanted to created their own rules regardless of the way society thinks. That demonstrates to be comfort, to be “naked”, was against society but they wanted to be naked to prove they can change the way to see things. “Once he locked me in and was gone three days. It was dreadful lonesome; I judged he had got drowned” (Twain 26). This means that Huck was tired of being inside and wanted to go out and get away of the cabin. He wanted to be free because he felt like a slave. Jim was acting like a grown-up thanks to all the experiences we
(p.71) Huck did not need to go back to get Jim, He could have ran away by himself for a better chance of survival, but he didn 't think twice as to help Jim as well. Huck thinks of Jim as Human while Mrs.Loftus thinks of him as more of an animal saying “ They 'll go after him at midnight.. he’ll likely be asleep, and they can slip around through the woods and hunt up his camp fire all the better for the dark, if he 's got one.” It sounds like he 's about ready to go hunt for a deer
Likewise, critic Laurel Bollinger describes Huck as “…courageous enough to stand against the moral conventions of his society…rather than conform to the "sivilizing" process of communities he rejects” (Bollinger). During his epiphany, he truly sees all the flaws in a “sivilized” life and realizes he cannot live his life according to ideals he does not agree with. Consequently, Huck decides, “And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again…” (Twain 215). He resolves to ignore what society thinks, because society’s beliefs are fallacious.
There are so many examples to prove that he isn't the same boy he was in the beginning. Some examples are Huck becoming more open-minded because he is a child, which allows him to develop and mature, as well as Huck’s experiences in the society help lead to his maturity. A scene that can represent his maturity is Huck doing pranks on Jim and not stopping to think if Jim appreciated those things. Every time he did this Jim would guilt tip him making Huck feel bad for what he did. So he promised he would never do those things again.
It is clear that Huck discovered his way of life as a kind and thoughtful person before the end of the book. He developed from a kid about fun and games into a man that now sees the new perspectives on
Following Jim’s orders, Huck doesn’t even make a move towards the body. This shows a very big step toward maturation because in his old, adventurous ways, he wouldn't have listened to such a request with a dead body sitting right there -- like in a adventure movie or book. It also is the first time he listened to an adult, let alone a black slave in the pre-civil war era. This reveals that Huck isn’t conforming to societal norms and has good morals by listening to someone he has respect for whether he realizes it or
Huckleberry Finn is a story about a rambunctious young boy who adventures off down the Mississippi River. “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain demonstrates a situation where a Huck tries to find the balance between what is right and what is wrong. Huck faces many challenges in which his maturity will play a part in making the correct decision for himself and his friend Jim. Huck becomes more mature by the end of the novel by showing that he can make the correct decisions to lead Jim to the freedom he deserves. One major factor where Huck matures throughout the novel is through his experience.
Huck decides to act on his morals rather than be held captive by society; Huck believes that he has to act in the best interest of Jim and does not consider what society believes is acceptable behavior. By stating that he will “go to hell,” Huck reiterates what he promises Jim in the beginning- that he rather be a “low down abolitionist”; these statements combined supports his feelings to protect Jim from society. When Huck and Tom get back to the house, Huck states, “...it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no
Huck had multiple chances to turn Jim in or not to help him when he was in trouble, but he could never bring himself to turn his back on Jim. From the time they first saw each other on the river, Huck felt a certain loyalty toward Jim. They both agreed not to give away the other’s location, this agreement brought a loyalty between them. “ Well I did. I said I wouldn’t
Jim was homesick. Huck at first had a hard time believing this. He says, “I do believe that Jim cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n. It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it’s so.”
While describing the escape in the novel Huck said, “I waited till I reckoned he had got a good start; then I out with my saw and went to work on that log again. Before he was t’other side of the river I was just a speck on the water away off yonder” (Twain 32). This quote tells the reader how Huck escapes from the cabin. This experience shows that Huck deserved freedom from the abuse of his father.
Throughout Huck’s many wild adventures, Mark Twain makes Huck's character develop and learn. Towards the beginning, he is similar to any common boy of that time period: young and unknowing. Near the end of the novel, Huck is respectively more mature than when the adventures had just begun. “I slid out quite and throwed the snakes clear away amongst the bushes; for I warn't going to let Jim find out it was all my fault, not if I could help it (Twain, pg 107).” This quote from the novel was said by Huck after he placed a dead snake by Jim while Jim was napping.
In this selected passage Huck decides he is not going to send the letter he wrote to Miss Watson with the intention of turning Jim in. Huck initially writes the letter because he is thinking about God and his state of sin, as he believes he is committing a sin by stealing another person’s property. He never sends the letter because he realized how much he trusts Jim and doesn’t see him as his property, but rather as a best friend. Previously he has stayed with Jim because it was easy, but this scene marks the time when he is able to stay by Jim’s side even when he believes it will come at a great personal cost.
Huck becomes more mature throughout the novel of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because of the adults that he meets along the way. These adults include the King and the Duke, Jim, and Huck’s father Pap to help Huck to realize how different people can be than by what is expected. Huck learns to not judge someone based on the color of their skin, not to trust everyone, and to notice that all he needs in his life is himself. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not only a story of a slaves journey to freedom, but also a story of a boy growing up into a
Twain includes this dilemma as part of Huck’s character because he is trying to make the point that morality isn’t always
Progressively, Huck is viewed as naive and immature during the early stages of his development. His juvenescence and innocence substantiate the potential for growth, which is shown to the reader by Huck’s