The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain shows Hucks maturity by his journey with Jim, he builds emotions and grows up. Huck is a teenage boy that is followed throughout the book maturing with his adventure with Jim down the Mississippi River, he has an unrealistic imagination that is ongoing, meeting Jim and running away from reality, and lying to multiple people along his journey.
In the beginning of the book Huck and Tom Sawyer came up with the idea of making a gang, They had a lot of ideas in their heads that were unrealistic. In this gang, they would kidnap ladies and put them in a cave, and they would rob wagons and steal money from the town. Huck and Tom had a very big imagination, they came up with so many ideas, but not one of them was ever going to happen. ““Now we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. Everybody that wants to join has to take an oath, and write his name in blood.”” (Page 5) This was when the idea of their gang came up and it wasn’t going to happen because it was a group of young teenage boys trying to destroy the town with this gang. Huck started out in the book with a childish imagination to then making the decision to hop on a raft to get away from his father.
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Huck floated down the river to a big island where he met Jim, little did he know that this journey was going to impact the rest of his life. Huck got on a raft and floated to an island where he would stay hidden for the next couple nights. ““Why, how long you been on the island, Jim?” “I come heah de night arter you’s killed.”” (Page 30) Huck found Jim on the island and he thought that if a young boy could run away then a grown man could as well, so he did to go and find him. This shows Huck maturing by going from thinking he is going to create a group of robbers, to running away from his father that is scares him. Huck decides that the only way he can solve these problems is to run away from it. Along the way he couldn’t tell anyone the truth about Jim because he is technically a runaway slave, and his point of running away is to not get caught.
On their journey, they stopped and Huck had to talk to people to get information about when Jim can be seen. Huck was a very good liar and whenever he got caught, he would always come up with something that would make sense. ““Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?” “Oh, yes’m, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah’s my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary.”” (Page 44) Huck went to an old lady’s house and pretended to be a girl, as he was caught in the act of lying, of course, he came up with something that made sense, Sarah Mary Williams. Huck goes to multiple townspeople's houses to gather information to where he needs to take Jim, but later on he almost gets turned in by the Duke and the King for money. Huck had to figure out how to escape them as well, while hiding Jim. Huck does whatever he can to help Jim out, even when he sees how much money he could get for turning him in, he would never do that to his friend.
Overall, the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows the maturity throughout the book with the character Huck Finn. In the end, this taught Huck that he can’t give up on a true friend. He helped Jim escape after he was captured by Tom Sawyer’s family, even though there was a mob of angry farmers that didn’t make Huck stop what he wanted to accomplish. Huck was a teenage boy that is followed throughout the book maturing with his adventure with Jim down the Mississippi River, he has an unrealistic imagination that he keeps throughout the book, to meeting Jim and running away from reality, then lying to multiple people along his journey.
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