Mark Twain's character Huck Finn matures throughout the story in many different aspects. In the novel the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain choose a boy to portray the main character. He develops into an independent young man who follows his true feelings instead of blindly following what society is suggesting. Huck Finn matures throughout the story by realizing Jim is human, his independence and lack of civilization, and follows the convictions of his conscience. .
Huck begins to recognize that black people are not property but are humans. He matures by ignoring what he has been taught his whole life, and acts on what he feels is true. He notices that Jim has feelings too, and he respects them. ""Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" "No"m. Killed a nigger." "Well its lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt"" (Twain 213). She as well as the majority of people in these times did not even consider black people as a person at all. They were jus property and did not have feelings, and were unimportant.
In the beginning of the novel, Huck talks about civilization and how much he hates it. He does not like to behave. "Then she told me all about to the bad place, and I said I wished I was there" (Twain 12). Later in the novel he when he is with his father down river, he says that he .
likes to be by himself and away from civilization. He is very independent which shows maturity, as a thirteen-year-old boy he is perfectly capable of taking care of himself. Finn also had to look out for Jim who is an adult. He is able to think on his toes, and helps many people during his journey south.
Huck is an independent person, but always just went along with what others stated was right. "I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me" (Twain 92). Huck had his mind made up that the runaway must be turned in. But after what he heard Jim say that, he decided to not only spare him, but save Jim.
