Experiences that occur throughout our lifespan can, and most often will, change who we are and how we perceive life. Some situations may be harsher than others, forcing us to take action that is out of our comfort zone. Others, on the opposite hand, may be more positive and teach us a manner of appreciation. Mark Twain, notorious for his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, demonstrates this concept of self-development and maturation by emphasizing key events in Finn’s journey.
The novel introduces Finn as he encounters a dire need to escape from his father. The man, better known as Pap, is a disreputable alcoholic and a thoughtless father figure. After promising to abandon his former drinking habits, he kidnaps Finn in the hopes of regaining his custody statement. However, as he repeatedly returns to a drunken state, he threatens to kill Finn whom in his mind is “The Angel of Death”; the following morning Pap, unaware of the previous night’s occurrence, leaves his home momentarily to hunt and Finn, anticipating a moment like so to come along, fakes his own death- leaving behind evidence such as an axe, pig’s blood to resemble that of his own, and locks of hair. In doing so he uses the opportunity to escape to Jackson Island. The discovery of his own survival skill of instant ludicrous storytelling proves
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As is clearly demonstrated, Huckleberry endured much and was put in this very position. Finn, the evidently dynamic character, chooses the opportunity of wisdom and develops tremendously with much effort. The events that Finn encountered helped him evolve from a young teenage boy into a mature and well-informed adolescent. Twain establishes in his profoundly metaphoric novel that life’s events will adapt who we are, for better or for worse; however it is how we approach them that determines the