In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, goes through many new experiences and and risky feats as he progresses into becoming a man. As he follows the river on his raft, he is unknowingly also paddling his way down the river into adulthood. He makes many moral decisions on what action to take when the time comes, and all of these choices lead him into who he changes into from the beginning to the end of the novella. Every selection he makes on what to do influences all of his other decisions, as well as many other factors. In the novelette The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain develops a boy’s loss of innocence through the growth of his moral compass, rites of passage taken, and the factors that cause this growth of persona.
In the beginning of the novella, Huckleberry Finn is shown to have to have no sense of right or wrong or any set of moral values. However, throughout the course of …show more content…
He is forced to make decisions that test his moral conduct and that displays his inner conscience. One of the first examples of a right of passage that he takes is when he makes a plan to save the criminals on a sinking ship, as Huck and Jim left them on the ship with no way off. His thought process is exposed when he says to himself, “Now was the first time that I begun to worry about the men—I reckon I hadn’t had time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain’t no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself yet, and then how would I like it?” (Twain 74). He could have left the criminals there, but chose to save them. He is now shown to have a set of morals in place that may not have been there before, as he now believes that knowingly allowing someone to die, no matter the kind of person they are, is not
In the beginning of the novella, Huckleberry Finn is shown to have to have no sense of right or wrong or any set of moral values. However, throughout the course of …show more content…
He is forced to make decisions that test his moral conduct and that displays his inner conscience. One of the first examples of a right of passage that he takes is when he makes a plan to save the criminals on a sinking ship, as Huck and Jim left them on the ship with no way off. His thought process is exposed when he says to himself, “Now was the first time that I begun to worry about the men—I reckon I hadn’t had time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain’t no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself yet, and then how would I like it?” (Twain 74). He could have left the criminals there, but chose to save them. He is now shown to have a set of morals in place that may not have been there before, as he now believes that knowingly allowing someone to die, no matter the kind of person they are, is not