Huckleberry Finn Ending

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered one of the best books in American literature. Though one detail seems to trouble people: the ending. Some people say the ending totally fits. Novelist Ernest Hemingway claims that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn"(PBS). Some others might consider the ending “too perfect”, although it still came to a full circle by having Huck revert to his idea of not wanting to be civilized, while also showing his growth as a character. Twain tied the ending with the beginning. Although Huck learned how to read and write, he never liked the idea of being civilized. Also shown in the end when he reverted to that mindset. In the end, Aunt Sally wants Huck to stay with her and adopt him. Huck states, “...Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it” (295). At the beginning of the book, Huck lives with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas. Miss Watson came to live with Widow Douglas, her sister, and Huck says that “She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up. I couldn’t stood it much longer” (3). They both try to civilize

Throughout the book he becomes mature and has a sense of logic and judgement. Something he did not have before, and would not have if he didn’t have the adventure he had with Jim. Where he also met with two robbers, who hide their identities by calling themselves the King and the Duke. Huck knows that what they are doing is bad, so he tries to stop them. When the King and the Duke finally get what they deserve, Huck feels sorry for them. It made him sick, seeing them tarred and feathered didn’t make him feel any better, he said “...human beings can be awful cruel to one another” (233). He knows the King and Duke are criminals but still feels sympathy. Huck develops a sense of conscience and morality, rare for someone his