Huck's maturity

            Being mature consists of developing ones character. Through friends, enemies and experiences, one grows to find out who he or she is in life. This also applies to characters of a novel. Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" takes readers through the process of moral maturation. During the novel, Huck develops into a fine young man who can distinguish from the rights and wrongs of his society. .
             Firstly, Huck defied the laws of society by taking Jim on the Mississippi River. "I seen that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river. I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there" (80). In Huck's view, there is a raft that he wants to climb aboard and travel on. At first, Huck just wants to climb aboard because Tom Sawyer would have done it: "and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now and so I won't either" (81). Inevitably, Huck by acting as Tom Sawyer would have, he proved himself to be courageous. However, this journey of courage, turned into Huck's maturation. Huck realized the cruelties of society, and how white men treat black men. He went against the community's consensus and followed what he believed in: treating everyone equally. .
             In addition, although Huck frequently lied, he lied for a cause. For example, when the Duke and the Daulphin asked if Jim was a runaway slave, Huck made up a story about how his father was poor and Jim was his n*gger and they had to travel in the night time because people would try to steal Jim away from Huck. "We don't run daytimes no more now; nights they don't bother us" (143). Huck describes that him and Jim are left alone by the people at night. Although lying can be seem and immature, Huck saved Jim from being found out. He deliberately lied to save Jim; thus being knowledgeable and showing maturity. Clearly, Huck risked his life to save Jim, proving that he was far mature beyond his years.