“A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment” - Alex Shakar. This relates to the adventures Huck has gone through and how the people he has met, influenced his behavior and level of maturity. Regardless of the influences of the people around someone, they will always grow up even if it takes years. Naturally, many will assume that people who influence your maturity level are inspirational and generous people but in fact, can be the opposite. A person who has acted the most negative towards Huck is his own father Pap. When Huck was having a conversation with Jim, he said Pap mentioned that you are not stealing if you recompense (Twain 62); Huck, later realizes that stealing is wrong when the Duke and …show more content…
Huck's friend is mischievous; an example is when he and Huck were meeting at the cave, they saw Jim and Tom wanted to tie Jim to the tree (Twain 9). Huck gets his playful nature from Tom and when he plays a prank on Jim when they get separated and pretended everything involving the fog was just a dream (Twain 80-81) Huck felt compunction because of why he did to Jim. Huck was shown by Tom that playing pranks is all fun and games, but later he hurts Jim and sees that it is not true, proving that he matured from what he was taught by …show more content…
When Huck leaves the cabin he sees Jim and they join forces in leaving St. Petersburg (Twain 40-41). They do not have a bond and are not close to each other but, over time Jim and Huck began to respect and form a bond when going through some challenges. For example, when Jim was hiding in the canoe and two white men were looking for slaves, Huck made the excuse that his dad, who was actually Jim, had smallpox (Twain 83-85). This was when the protagonist had a moral crisis and cannot bring himself to turn Jim in; the results could have ended up coming out differently if Huck was the same person he was at the beginning of the