Mr. Unrein
English 3
December 18, 2017
Although these two books were written in two different time periods and deal with different issues, both of these books talk about the theme of identity between two teens. Zits and Huck go through different adversity to find their true identities within the book, by the end of the books both characters find their true identities. In Flight and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Zits become more loving towards individuals and open to new ideas when they go through troublesome experiences.
Zits has to overcome adversity throughout the book and in doing so, becomes more open to new ideas. Zits is a boy who is self-conscious about everything about himself by saying that he is tall, skinny, …show more content…
Huck is both the main character and narrator of the story. He goes through many troublesome experiences having his father be the local drunk of the town and is forced to live on his own and be the town outcast. Huck moves in with a Widow who has agreed to take care of him. The Widow starts to tell Huck some of the rules that he must obey if he is going to live with her and he is displeased with them. Because he is so uncomfortable with all of these rules he decides to run away but is later convinced by Tom Sawyer to go back and live with the widow. Huck and his friends decide to sneak out and while they do this, huck starts to show some immaturity and decides to play a trick on Miss Watson's slave Jim(Twain 10). After Huck and all of his friends meet up they all discuss how they want to become a robber gang and how they will only attack carriages and take the things inside. But this robber gang does not last long because all of the kids get tired of pretending to be robbers and robbing people. When Huck comes home from school one night he finds Pap sitting in a chair waiting for him to return. After Pap finishes harassing Huck for going to school and wearing good clothes he tells Huck “You lemme catch you fooling around that school again you hear?”(Twain 26) threatening that he is going to hurt him if he attends school again. In attending school, Huck is trying to be more mature and be better than his father and mother. Although he doesn't like school, he still attends it when he could easily run away from school and the Widow. Although Huck starts to act as if he is getting mature he goes back to his immature way when he plays another trick on Jim on Jackson’s Island. But, this trick ends up getting Jim bitten by a rattlesnake and severely injures