Huck’s father is the driving force for Huck to leave his home and journey on an adventure of a lifetime. The spirit of adventure is missing from Kuusisto’s live and reading about a boy around his age traveling up the Mississippi River would be inspiring for Kuusisto. Huck’s story about a boy going on spectacular adventures and doing activities that even average kids would be jealous would be the adventure to imagine time and time again. Through his adventures, Huck grows as a person and becomes a more mature person. The highlight of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is when Huck goes against his society and decides to help a slave escape slavery. Helping Jim escape from capture “made [him] shiver” because he thinks about how others in the southern society would view him (Twain 269). …show more content…
The southern society ingrained into Huck’s mind that if you save a slave from slavery you are a criminal. Huck is not immediately worried about how Jim would be treated if he escaped, Huck is worried about how he would be affected. He is worried that by breaking an unsaid rule of the south he would become more of an outcast than he already is. However, Huck decides that Jim has been too nice to have him suffer slavery any longer. Huck decides that he’ll “go to hell”, because saving a slave meant going to hell in that society (Twain 271). This act of rejecting what you are taught and doing the opposite takes maturity and without his adventures Huck would not have been mature enough to help Jim. Maturing and learning more about yourself is the point of adventure books. Huck learned that not everything his society teaches is