Maturity In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Growing as people is one of the most important pieces in someone's life and could change everything in a person's life. Loyalty and Maturity and two parts of human nature that are very important for development. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a novel published in 1884 about a boy named huck and how he grows through the actions of life. Throughout the novel, Huck grows most as a person in his loyalty and his maturity shown by the different uses of diction, syntax structure, and tone.

In Huck’s life, Loyalty was one thing that changed drastically and for the better. When first meeting Huck, he was a slightly loyal character but meeting Jim changes him into willing to do whatever for someone that matters to him. Once the two men were together for an amount of time Huck became a much more trusting person “Jim, this is nice,” I says. “I wouldn’t want to be nowhere else but here” (Twain 49) Huck is learning to trust people more and make people feel more comfortable. Even though he was loyal to …show more content…

Though he was slightly mature in the beginning living through many different situations can change a person. “That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it” (Twain 2). Once Huck finally got back from his adventure with Tom he was rebellious and did what he pleases, not caring for other people. After experiencing the living nightmare society can be even to the terrible people he realizes “Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings CAN be awful cruel to one another” - (Twain 232) even though the Duke and Dauphin were terrible people huck still believes that no one should be treated the same way they were treated. Huck grew to be a better person and his maturity changed for the better with