Huck Finn's Development Essay

Our first picture of Huck at the beginning of the novel was a young innocent boy who doesn’t like to work and is also superstitious. He lived with Widow Douglas, who took him as a son and tried to “civilise” him. He also lives with Widow Douglas’s sister, Miss Watson, she was always telling Huck to sit up straight etc. He lived life there being told what to do and believe quite a lot. Huck felt that he lived a constrained life living with them, life in captivity. Huck wanted to do things, get out and to have adventure. Huck had his own opinion on things mainly. When Miss Watson told him about the good and the bad place, he chose the bad because it seemed better and more interesting. When Tom tells Huck about the genies and the Arabs etc, Huck knows when Tom is lying when he has seen it hasn’t happened. He believes in what he can see and experience. Huck has natural intelligence, he is not gullible, he is logical and practical, and he is also sceptical. Huck, like a normal per...