Examples Of Maturity In Huckleberry Finn

Growing up is a long and strenuous process everyone must go through in their lives. For some people it’s easy and for others, it takes a little longer to grasp the maturity stage. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, Huck Finn struggles to find his maturation. Huck gradually gets more mature through his adventures with a very immature friend Tom Sawyer, a slave named Jim who slowly becomes a friend with Huck, and through two con-men who have a lot of greed.
At the beginning of this novel, Huck was trying to fit in with his friend Tom Sawyer, but found out that he was far more mature than Tom. For example, huck joined one of Tom’s groups that he created where they would pretend to be bad guys. Huck started to think that this group was very immature and thought Tom started to lie about their group adventures. Huck narrated, “ I reckoned he believed in the Arabs and the elephants, but as for me, I think different” (14). Instead of Huck staying in the immature group, he realized he was a little more mature than that. On another thought, when Huck and Tom were trying to help Jim escape the slave house, Tom came up with some crazy idea to get Jim out. Huck was not putting up with that nonsense and says “ Why, you just said a body could lift up the bedstead and slip the chain off”(238). Huck realized that his friend Tom liked to come up with more complex and immature plans while Huck himself used
Towards the beginning of the novel, Huck struggles with his maturity when he was with his immature friend Tom Sawyer. Throughout the rest of the novel, Huck starts to find his maturation when he is with Jim, and at the end, Huck finds his maturation through the Duke and the Kings wrong doings. It’s ironic how he finds his maturation from two very immature people.Growing up is a long and strenuous process everyone must go through in their