Maturity does not have an Age To be a kid doesn't mean you cannot do a big change and at the same time mature and fight for your ideas. The novel “The Adventures the Huckleberry Finn” is about a salvage, incredible, and friendly adventure that Huck had with his friend Jim around the Mississippi River looking for Jim’s freedom. The maturity of Huck is related to coming of age because he shows a lot confident for challenging society and fighting for freedom. Huck’s shows he is more mature for his age because he is challenging society “Honest unjust I will people would call me a low down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum-but that don’t make no difference.i ain't agoing to tell, and I ain't agoing…” (Twain 32) Here is when Huck stared …show more content…
“Now was the first time I begun to worry about the men-I reckon I hadn’t-had time to before I begun think how dreadful it was, to myself, there ain't no telling but might come to be murdered myself yet, and then how Would I like it?” This is the first time Huck question himself about the cause and effect of the other people. After he realized that he could now make a plan in order to save lives even though it’s considered a murder. “I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way” (Twain 65). Huck felt terrible for playing a trick to Jim because now he considers Jim as a human too. This is when Huck started to admit that what he was doing was wrong because he started to analyze how his actions were affecting other people. “I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks, though I ain’t had no experience…” (Twain 141). Here is when Huck shows the major progress of his journey to maturity. He finally realizes that o tell a lie is wrong because he is going to hurt more than telling the truth at first, is better to tell the truth even when it hurts. Huck's maturity is based in his hard experience throughout the …show more content…
“It was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer, I lit out.” (Twain 1).In this quote, the reader can notice that he feels like a prisoner in widow Dougla’s house because of her proper and religious ways of saying her feelings. This shows Huck wanted to be able to do whatever he wanted to. “We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes let us” (Twain 118). This is an expression that proves that Jim and Huck wanted to created their own rules regardless of the way society thinks. That demonstrates to be comfort, to be “naked”, was against society but they wanted to be naked to prove they can change the way to see things. “Once he locked me in and was gone three days. It was dreadful lonesome; I judged he had got drowned” (Twain 26). This means that Huck was tired of being inside and wanted to go out and get away of the cabin. He wanted to be free because he felt like a slave. Jim was acting like a grown-up thanks to all the experiences we