his final acceptance of adult moral responsibilities (Adams 42). But as the story progresses we see the true and real maturation of Huckleberry Finn.
             One of the first times you see a slight change in the maturity level of Huck is when his father kidnaps him and takes him to the cabin. Huck knows that his father is only after the money he and his friend Tom Sawyer acquired in the previous book and asks for the judge's help to protect him from his cruel and offensive father who wants to squander his riches away on whiskey. Huck comes to the realization that his father is an evil man. His father constantly goes out and gets drunk beyond the point of insanity so much so that he chases Huck around the cabin in a drunken rage with a knife one night. Huck must conjure up an elaborate story of a thief trying to break into the cabin so as not to receive a severe beating from his abusive father. And so Huck devises a pretty mature plan in which he escapes his bonded life and convinces his father and everyone else that he has been killed and looks for a new life on Jackson Island.
             Here on Jackson Island Huck Finn is shown to be varying from the original immature figure that he is displayed as in the opening of the novel. On the island the reader catches a better picture of an independent Huck. Huck is brought away from the perils of civilization and his best friend Tom Sawyer, w
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