How Huckleberry Finn is a Coming of Age Novel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is just like To Kill a Mockingbird because, Harper Lee wrote, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” This relates to Huck Finn because both novels have characters who mature from life lessons. Mark Twain, the author of Huck Finn shows how the main character Huck matures from a young boy who does not want to live by any rules to a boy who matures from conflicts and develops his own morals in life. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck matures through both external and internal conflicts such as, Jim’s quest for freedom, Huck’s conflict with what to do about Jim, and Huck’s struggle with what is right and what …show more content…
Huck is on the canoe and Jim is on the raft, Jim worries when he thinks he will never see Huck again. When Huck finally meets back up with Jim he is thankful Huck is alive and tells him how worried he was. Huck tricks Jim into thinking it was just a dream which makes Jim upset when he sees the debris from being separated. Afterwards Huck says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither” (Twain 97). In this quotation Huck is becoming less racists and he sees that Jim has his own feelings. From being raised in a society where white people are racists Huck matures into a kid who understands that African American people have feelings too. At the beginning of the novel Huck would not even talk to a slave, now he is apologizing to one. Another example of Huck maturing from their adventures is when they come up on some men saying they want to search the raft for escaped slaves. Huck does not want to give Jim up because he knows he will feel bad, so he pretends his family is on the raft and they have smallpox. Huck says, “...because it’s pap …show more content…
Mark Twain shows Huckleberry Finn becoming more mature through both external and internal conflicts. Huck matures from, their quest/adventures to get to freedom, the decision on what to do with Jim, and the struggles with knowing what is right and what is wrong in society. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be compared to, To Kill a Mockingbird because, both novels are coming of age examples and they both have characters who mature from life lessons and
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is just like To Kill a Mockingbird because, Harper Lee wrote, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” This relates to Huck Finn because both novels have characters who mature from life lessons. Mark Twain, the author of Huck Finn shows how the main character Huck matures from a young boy who does not want to live by any rules to a boy who matures from conflicts and develops his own morals in life. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck matures through both external and internal conflicts such as, Jim’s quest for freedom, Huck’s conflict with what to do about Jim, and Huck’s struggle with what is right and what …show more content…
Huck is on the canoe and Jim is on the raft, Jim worries when he thinks he will never see Huck again. When Huck finally meets back up with Jim he is thankful Huck is alive and tells him how worried he was. Huck tricks Jim into thinking it was just a dream which makes Jim upset when he sees the debris from being separated. Afterwards Huck says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither” (Twain 97). In this quotation Huck is becoming less racists and he sees that Jim has his own feelings. From being raised in a society where white people are racists Huck matures into a kid who understands that African American people have feelings too. At the beginning of the novel Huck would not even talk to a slave, now he is apologizing to one. Another example of Huck maturing from their adventures is when they come up on some men saying they want to search the raft for escaped slaves. Huck does not want to give Jim up because he knows he will feel bad, so he pretends his family is on the raft and they have smallpox. Huck says, “...because it’s pap …show more content…
Mark Twain shows Huckleberry Finn becoming more mature through both external and internal conflicts. Huck matures from, their quest/adventures to get to freedom, the decision on what to do with Jim, and the struggles with knowing what is right and what is wrong in society. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be compared to, To Kill a Mockingbird because, both novels are coming of age examples and they both have characters who mature from life lessons and