The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “The great American epic,” may be one of the most

Throughout the majority of the book, the reader gets a sense of Huck maturing. The image of Huck at the beginning, a rowdy young boy with little respect for blacks, and a feeling of “immortality of youth”, is seemingly shattered with the progression of the book. However, this progression changes near the end of the book, when Twain decides to bring Tom Sawyer back into the plot. By doing this, Twain seems to almost throw out all of the maturation that Huck has gathered throughout the book. Huck seems to not take a dominant position in the situation, but he instead falls right back into his conformity with Tom. This is best seen when the two boys try to rescue Jim at the end of the book. As usual, Huck comes up with a good, simple idea to free Jim. However, Tom just didn’t buy it. “But it’s too blame simple; there ain’t nothin’ to it. What’s the good of the plan that ain’t no more trouble than that?” was Tom’s response to Huck’s simple plan. It showed that Tom was still just an immature boy who was looking to have a good time, and play a game. Huck on the other hand demonstrated his affection for Jim. He wanted to free Jim, and didn’t care how. Deep down he knew that his plan was very good; however, he took a submissive approach to Tom’s plan, which caused the two more problems than ever.

Another experience that helps Huck to mature is when he stays with the Grangerfords. Even though Huck’s stay with the Grangerfords is short he experiences a large amount of moral growth. The Grangerfords were involved in a feud with an another family, the Sheperdsons. The feud between the families came as a horrible shock to Huck. Through this feud, Huck learned just how bad war and hatred could really be. This was amplified when the Grangerford family member that he had come to know well, Buck, was killed in the feud. His timely death made Huck realize that there really shouldn’t be something silly enough to make a child no older than himself become a crazed murderer. He was mature enough to realize that Buck’s statement, “A feud is something where everyone on one side wants to kill everyone on the other side, until by and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud.” What shocked Huck even more was that the families were not really even sure what they were fighting about. However, amidst the chaos, Twain shows that there can be reconciliation. Even though the families would not agree to stop fighting, members of each family showed there could be love. Sophia Grangerford ran off to be with Harney Sheperdson so the two could be together, despite their families’ differences. Huck’s experience with the Grangerfords certainly taught him a great deal about strong emotions, which in turn helped him to mature.

interesting and complex books ever written in the history of our nation. This book cleverly disguises many of the American ideals in a child floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a black slave. On the outside of the story, one can see an exciting tale of heroism and adventure; however, that is not all. The book shows Mark Twain’s idea of the classic American idealism, consisting of freedom, morality, practicality, and an alliance with nature. Twain manages to show all this while poking fun at the emergence of the “robber barons,” better know as the big business

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