Blithe And Childish Personality In Mark Twain's Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

In Mark Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, like most growing children, has many changes in his personality. Throughout the novel Huck constantly learns new things and, despite a few setbacks, he uses them to mature. Through this maturity, Huck becomes more caring and wise, unlike his blithe and childish personality in the beginning of the the novel. Twain characterizes Huck as any other child by telling us his path to maturity. Huck realizes who he is and what he believes.

When the novel begins Huck has a very care-free and childish personality, especially towards Mrs.Watson and the Widow Douglas. The Widow Douglas continuously tries to teach Huck about Christianity and the Bible, but Huck, like most kids, is never interested. When Mrs. Watson attempts to tell Huck about “Moses and the Bulrushers” (Twain 14), he seems to be interested until he finds out that Moses is no longer alive. Huck then says that he doesn’t “take no stock in dead people” (14) and goes on with his business. This response shows Huck’s blithe personality because of his apathetic reaction to learning about someone who is no longer alive. Huck also makes quite childish decisions that hurt people throughout the novel. When Huck makes

He leaves his strict and hostile home and ventures into society to choose what he wants to believe and what rules he wants to follow. In this process, he goes from being very childish and blithe to maturing into a wise and caring young man. Huck starts thinking before acting and putting others feelings before his own. He learns who he truly is, as people in the today’s society often do. When we are born, our parents instill their personal beliefs into our minds, and we do not learn to think for ourselves until we leave home. This is exactly how Huck Finn finds himself in the novel. His journey of finding himself as he travels down the river represents our journey of finding ourselves throughout