Thursday, March 28, 2013



In the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,by Mark Twain, the main character Huckleberry Finn changes his behavior and attitude as the book goes on. For example, he and Tom Sawyer pull a prank on Jim in chapter two of the novel. When Jim is sleeping the boys
take Jim’s hat off his head and hang it on the branch above him. When Jim finally wakes up, he believes that witches came.  Huck does not tell the truth because he is amused of how superstitious and ignorant Jim is.However as the chapters go on he starts to become mature by being able to feel sympathetic for his actions towards others. For example, Huck and Jim get separated because of a heavy fog in chapter fifteen.Jim panics and the next day the fog disappears. Huck finds Jim sleeping and pretends that Jim was asleep the whole night and that the fog incident was all a dream. Jim realizes Huck’s lie and is sad. Huck realizes his trick was mean. He is at first hesitant to apologize to Jim because of his skin color but does it anyway because he is genuinely remorseful for lying which shows his maturity. At the start of the novel he didn’t take any responsibilities for his wrong doings. Ms.Watson, widow Douglass, and judge Thatcher also took care of him. But after he ran away and decided to help Jim become a free man he had to be the care taker for a change. It was his job to do all the planning and protect Jim from being caught as a runaway slave.