Huckleberry Finn: Becoming A Man

Becoming a man is a big thing and there a different ways and meanings in how Huck and Henry both become men. A big part of poems and stories written in the days of old talked about becoming a man in this essay I will portray two stories that exquisitely say what it means to become a man. The first will be the “Red Badge of Courage” the second will be “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. These two stories may be different in many ways, but have the same principle which is, a boy becoming a Man in his own right.

For Henry in the Red badge of courage what it meant to be a man was not back down in the face of danger and doing what is right. Doing what was right is what Henry did, but before he did what was right, he had to become a man. Because at first he was afraid to do what was right like how “Henry deserts his regiment when he thinks they have lost, and ventures out on his own. He is alone in thought as well as in body.
Huck Finn was a boy who had a fair home he lived in had six thousand dollars in account but he was still a boy because he let stuff he knew was wrong slide and wouldn’t put it to justice or try to stop it. Like when Huck does the wrong thing and lies to Jim when they got caught in the huge storm he lies to his friend Huck says this to Jim after word "Well, this is too many for me, Jim. I hain't seen no fog, nor no islands, nor no troubles, nor nothing. I been setting here talking with you all night till you went to sleep about ten minutes ago, and I reckon I done the same. You couldn't a got drunk in that time, so of course you've been dreaming." When Huck finishes the and Jim plays along with for a bit he reveals to Huck that he knows what happened and is disappointed in Huck for lying to him who he had sailed with down the Mississippi for some time all just to not take the blame for not tying up the