In the Star Wars saga, Darth Vader begins as a child: innocent and curious. Anakin Skywalker, who later becomes Vader, shows high levels of immaturity in dealing with the conflicts that come his way. When Mace Windu and Yoda allow Anakin onto the Jedi Council, but do not give him the rank of Master, he proclaims the wrongdoing in this course of action. In the end, Darth Vader matures and helps his son defeat the Emperor, despite all of the atrocious deeds he has done in the name of the Empire. Huck Finn, from Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, goes through his own arc of maturity throughout the novel. Though Huck matures throughout the novel, he regresses at the end, leaving behind any maturity he has gained. At the beginning, Huck’s
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When Jim feels homesick, Hucks comes to an important realization: Jim cares about his family “as much . . . as white folks” (117) cared about their families. In Huck’s time and place, the general public frowned upon those who cared about slaves and freedmen. Huck starts to see Jim as a decent human being and gains the maturity that allows him to also see Jim is, in reality, his equal. Huck, having befallen the fate of separation in the fog, finds Jim eventually, but plays it off as if he never left. Jim insists that he whooped to Huck to try to get him to come back. Huck, however, insists that Jim was dreaming. When Jim finds out that Huck tricked him, he shames Huck, who thinks that he “wouldn’t done that one” (65) if he knew that the trick would have caused Jim that much distress. In this moment, Huck feels sympathetic to Jim and apologizes to him. Once again, in a community at this time, a white person, like Huck, would never say sorry to a slave, like Jim. Huck’s growing maturity appears. During the king and duke’s scam with the Wilks family, Huck comes to the choice of telling Mary Jane the truth. Huck believes that “the truth is . . . safer than a lie” (141). After lying so many times in the earlier parts of the novel, Huck decides against lying. The maturity that Huck has grows more and changes him. Because Huck sees the truth as a better option than lying, he picks …show more content…
From Huck offering Miss Watson as his family if he spills the secrets of the gang, Huck becoming complacent with the absurd situation his father puts him in, or how easily Huck plays a prank on Jim with the rattlesnake, Huck’s immaturity presents itself in an obvious way at the start of the novel. In the middle of the novel, when Huck gains maturity, he feels sympathy for Jim, who misses his family. Huck also feels horrible when Jim is so distraught by the trick Huck played on him. This maturity is also shown when Huck tells the truth about the king and the duke to Mary Jane. Though Huck briefly questions Tom, he knows that Tom’s plan will have more style and willingly does what Tom asks him to, even if other choices have more logic. The lack of maturity in the end also causes Huck to focus on the fact that Tom agreed to help him and not on the fact that Tom could have told him that Miss Watson freed Jim and avoided the absurd plan that they carried out. Huck, having gained lots of maturity throughout the novel, does not use any of this and reverts back to his old ways in the end of the novel when he meets up with Tom again. Just like Huck, Darth Vader gains maturity in Star Wars, but he does keep it in the end, unlike
When Jim feels homesick, Hucks comes to an important realization: Jim cares about his family “as much . . . as white folks” (117) cared about their families. In Huck’s time and place, the general public frowned upon those who cared about slaves and freedmen. Huck starts to see Jim as a decent human being and gains the maturity that allows him to also see Jim is, in reality, his equal. Huck, having befallen the fate of separation in the fog, finds Jim eventually, but plays it off as if he never left. Jim insists that he whooped to Huck to try to get him to come back. Huck, however, insists that Jim was dreaming. When Jim finds out that Huck tricked him, he shames Huck, who thinks that he “wouldn’t done that one” (65) if he knew that the trick would have caused Jim that much distress. In this moment, Huck feels sympathetic to Jim and apologizes to him. Once again, in a community at this time, a white person, like Huck, would never say sorry to a slave, like Jim. Huck’s growing maturity appears. During the king and duke’s scam with the Wilks family, Huck comes to the choice of telling Mary Jane the truth. Huck believes that “the truth is . . . safer than a lie” (141). After lying so many times in the earlier parts of the novel, Huck decides against lying. The maturity that Huck has grows more and changes him. Because Huck sees the truth as a better option than lying, he picks …show more content…
From Huck offering Miss Watson as his family if he spills the secrets of the gang, Huck becoming complacent with the absurd situation his father puts him in, or how easily Huck plays a prank on Jim with the rattlesnake, Huck’s immaturity presents itself in an obvious way at the start of the novel. In the middle of the novel, when Huck gains maturity, he feels sympathy for Jim, who misses his family. Huck also feels horrible when Jim is so distraught by the trick Huck played on him. This maturity is also shown when Huck tells the truth about the king and the duke to Mary Jane. Though Huck briefly questions Tom, he knows that Tom’s plan will have more style and willingly does what Tom asks him to, even if other choices have more logic. The lack of maturity in the end also causes Huck to focus on the fact that Tom agreed to help him and not on the fact that Tom could have told him that Miss Watson freed Jim and avoided the absurd plan that they carried out. Huck, having gained lots of maturity throughout the novel, does not use any of this and reverts back to his old ways in the end of the novel when he meets up with Tom again. Just like Huck, Darth Vader gains maturity in Star Wars, but he does keep it in the end, unlike