Huckleberry Finn is a significant character in Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Typically anyone who reads this novel gains a sense of knowledge of what it was like to live in such times. In this book, Huck undergoes many types of occurrences ranging from manufacturing a gang with his friends to dressing up as a girl. Huck also is involved in more serious and controversial events that mentally force Huck to think like an adult. Readers get to experience Huck’s way of thinking throughout the whole book. Huck is involved in all types of situations. In Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s maturity, adaptability, and logical thinking teaches readers to keep a clear mind in pressured conditions to have the best possible …show more content…
His logic skills are used to lie quite often, but they were still successful. Huck uses simple logistics to save Jim and himself several times, often trying to keep people from Jim. Huck says frantically, “He’s sick - and so is Mam and Mary Ane…”(Twain 93). In chapter sixteen, Huck and Jim are on their raft and a few slave hunters are out near them. Huck ends up talking to them, with Jim on the raft by himself in the distance. He quickly fabricates a story that he is with his poor and diseased family, though this is obviously not true. This keeps the men away from Jim and the raft, therefore saving Jim. All Huck had to do was think of a reason why someone would not want be near another person, and using logic, he thought of …show more content…
Huck’s maturity evolves from a simplistic teenage thought process to a more man-like state later in the novel. His maturity eventually leads to improvement in adaptation also, giving him the mental tools needed to think like an adult, and these other two traits tie right into the last one, logistics. Huck’s street smarts kept him and Jim at a safe distance from anyone and everyone for almost the entirety of the book. Even if he has never experienced such situations before, Huck still pulls through them to save himself and his beloved