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Huck Finn Matures Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a novel that tracks the development of a young boy’s life on the Mississippi River in the late 1800’s. The Novel’s main character, Huck Finn, struggles to find and unite himself during a time when our nation divided and at a loss. Throughout the book, Huck strives to define his opinions of religion, slavery, family, and friends as he defies society’s. Huckleberry Finn as a character begins this book as a boy and ends this book as a boy; there are, however, many blaring opportunities for Huck to evolve into a much more mature individual. Huck Finn starts this book as a lost boy that has been found and miraculously saved by society (Widow Douglas). The Widow takes him in and attempts to “civilize” Huck. Huck went along with this new family but never felt quite right because he has never experienced civilization. Huck thought “it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways.” Huck’s nature is not to bath, learn, read, or be polite. He was raised in the wild and “wild” huck, jim, adventure, huck’s, finn, book, time, society, right, raft, boy, widow, slavery, same, river, novel, never, life, huckleberry, freedom, free, ends, wisdom, wild, ways, two, throughout, things, takes, quite, plan, new, naïve, much, mississippi