Archetypal Hero In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”has become an extremely famous and meaningful book in American history. Huck’s story has become an American classic, largely because of the character development that takes place in the story. Throughout Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Huck’s character grows and develops, from being an extremely innocent boy, to becoming an archetypal hero. Huck is heavily influenced by characters to become this. Throughout The events in the first portion of the story, Huck’s character slowly begins to develop into the role of an archetypal hero. During the first scenes of the story, Huck’s innocence is shown by his attitude to the widow douglas, and Miss Watson. This is shown by Twain’s writing …show more content…

Huck’s innocence is shown in this portion of the story by his lack of manners and respect to Miss Watson. He does not listen to authorities, which is typical of people huck’s age, but not typical of archetypal heroes. During this portion of the story, Huck sneaks out of the widow douglas’s house, to go on adventures with huck. This furthermore shows his immaturity. Huck’s innocence is also shown by his not understanding religion. When the widow tries to explain the concept of christianity, huck doesn't understand what she means. This is shown by “by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care anymore about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people”(Twain2). Huck is an extremely logical thinker and can’t understand religion. While living with the widow douglas huck learns of his father,Pap, and is eventually kidnapped by him. Huck being kidnapped and held by Pap had a huge effect on his development as a character. Huck is influenced by his father, and begins to do everything Pap wants him not to do. An example of this is when Pap explains his unhappiness with huck going to school, so Huck …show more content…

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