Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Shows Different Ways of Growing Up

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Growing up is different for everyone. Some people are given everything that they want; others have to work for even the one meal they might get a day. This is something that has gone on for as long as humans have walked this Earth. In the novel’s by Mark Twain you get to see both sides of this, the more wealthy side of growing up in Tom Sawyer and the more poor side being Huck Finn, even though these completely different characters end up being friends, you would never think they could be. They become friends through all of the adventures they go on. If you were tell either of them what they were doing was dangerous neither of them would care, they did not see any danger in what they were doing because they loved the adventure side of it so much. They end up going on one adventure that really paid off and they find gold, and end up with 600 dollars each. This changed both of their lives, but mostly Huck’s. In the book by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there were three parts of this story that really stood out to me.
When Huckleberry Finn faked his own death using a pig and being very methodical about how he set it up in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck realizes that he is done living with his father who is just drunk all of the time and has him locked in a cabin. This in itself is really unnerving to me. If you were to lock me in a cabin I am almost one hundred percent sure that I would not live. To fake his own murder he “took and ax and smashed in the door…fetched the pig in and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the ax…I pulled out my hair and bloodied the ax good and slung it in the corner.” Huck then steps back and studies his work to make sure there could be ...

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Mark Twain incorporated a lot of fantastic and different scenes in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and made it a book that will always be remembered for that. This is a different type of book for the way that it is written. Mark Twain himself said,He admits that there is not real plot throughout this book, yet it is full of the greatest of moments, from growing up, to seeing through skin color, and even escaping people that have hurt you in the past. One thing that this book really points out is that it is not okay to lie, and you have to be true to yourself when all else fails. This quote from Ray Bradbury really expresses how this book my Mark Twain works and is set up. Being a child no one wants to listen to you, but they have to come around at some point and listen to what you have to say or else nothing will work out they way they should.

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