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Huckleberry Finn Ending

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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 …show more content…

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

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By the end of the book, I think that Huck has changed a lot. He has learned things that the widow or his dad or even Tom Sawyer couldn’t teach him. Huck has also become a much nicer and more independent person. A big part about Huck that changed is that he realizes that African Americans and slaves are not at all different from anyone else. Huck even makes good friends with Jim which would have been completely unheard of back in his home town.

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(220).This shows how Huck has developed from a boy who would go along with any of Tom’s antics, to someone who can challenge his ideas. As well, this helps show that Huck’s plans have become much more developed. The ideas Huck comes up with support this because they are much more practical and beneficial to Jim than Tom’s elaborate ideas. Tom’s imagination seemingly contrasts how Huck has matured into realizing that trying to achieve everything in your imagination is unwise, and is more likely to cause complications. In conclusion, I believe Huck has developed into a much more logical and mature person, and this is contrasted by Tom Sawyer immaturity and extreme

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Huck does not believe stealing from good people is something that should be done and he disagrees with the King and Dukes actions. Along the journey the challenges Huck faced transformed him from a boy to a mature young

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 When he and Jim encounter the “Duke” and “King”.  Huck states that it “didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all” (127).   Both Huck and Jim can clearly tell that they are frauds, and for several chapters heed to their every whim just to keep the social balance and to not get beat up by them.     In the end of the book, Huck has reached his moral peak, and completely goes against what society tells him.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is widely considered the most important novels in recent history and is often called the basis for all modern American literature. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in pre-Civil War Missouri, and the book is about Huckleberry Finn and his adventures. He fakes his death to get away from his abusive father, and when he was running away he found the runaway slave, Jim. He and Jim continue to go down the Mississippi river on a raft, to try to get Jim to freedom. Along the way, they encounter many people, such as two con men who ride the raft with them, and Huck gets involved in a family feud.

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Through others and himself, Huck shows signs of maturity. He is empathic, comforting, and caring throughout his adventures. Huck accomplished lots of deeds: helped return the money to the girls, comforted Mary Jane and Aunt Sally. Huck felt sorry for the king and duke for being tarred and feathered and protected Jim. Huck has made some mistakes and lied to the watchman, king and duke, but it was all done with the right intentions and attitude.

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This is clear when he, “went on thinking.” Huck begins to reminisce about all the good times he had with Jim, and it is very apparent he held them very close to his heart. This is clear with Huck stating, “how good he always was,” when referring to Jim. Huck also begins to connect how important he may have been to Jim, when Huck says, “ he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now.” Huck now has a momentous decision, determining whether or not he will follow the morals he has viewed as good, or those he knows truly for himself.

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As the novel progresses, Huck starts developing as a mature young character by showing some sense of morality because he is now aware of how the duke and the dauphin have pretended all this time. For the first time, he chooses to challenge and expose the duke and the dauphin by preventing the malicious and fake schemes of these men to continue. The first actual action that Huck seem to take is his acquisition of the $6,000 in gold, which he puts on Wilks 's coffin. Despite his own development as a "mature" young boy, he makes every effort to try to understand the contradictory messages he gets from his personal experiences and from society. This can be seen when Huck does not give the money that he took from the duke and the dauphin back to the Wilks sisters as soon as possible.

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