Huck Finn's Maturity...
Can you imagine getting beaten to a bloody pulp? Probably not, in fact, you are most likely disgusted by the image that this question has put into your head. However, in the Confederate South of the United States, many blacks were beaten daily. Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain under his pen name, is known today as an abolitionist. This is because of his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this novel, a young boy named Huckleberry Finn learns a valuable lesson. As the novel progresses, and Huck adventures with a runaway slave, Jim, Huck slowly begins to understand the evil in slavery and realizes that society is wrong in its treatment of slaves. He finally decides to follow his heart when dealing with Jim. Even at the beginning of the novel, before he has gotten a chance to explore what he believes is right, Huck has grown tired of dealing with society and what society thinks is right and civilized. This is significant because it helps make the idea that a fourteen-year-old boy could cast away the beliefs of his society much more believable. For example, he says, "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me...I got into my old rags and my sugar hogshead again, and was free
For example, Jim says, "Po' little 'Lizabeth! Po' little johnny! Its might hard; I spec' I ain't ever gwyne to see you no mo', no mo'!" (P age 183) In the climax of the novel, Huck fights with two different and distinct voices. He is told that slaves are just lesser people than people of the white race are. Out of guilt, he starts to write a letter to Mrs. " Huck prefers living free and being able to think what he wants, rather than being "sivilized. Instead, Jim tells him, "dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's en makes 'em ashamed (Page 86)". However, after apologizing, Huck was never truly sorry for what he did. He kills a rattlesnake and puts it on the foot of Jim's blankets. Watson telling her that Jim has run away. This shows his immaturity in the early stage of the novel. The accepted values of the time were that slaves were not only inhumane, but also considered as merely pieces of property. One is the voice of society, which says that Huck should turn Jim in as a runaway slave because he is property and belongs to Miss Watson. Thus, throughout the story Huck rethinks some of the prejudices that he has been taught his whole life.
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