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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn is a very complex and thought-provoking young boy. Born into the lower level of white society, this thirteen-year-old boy goes through a great change in the story. Through the course of this narrative, Huck will create himself no less willfully than anyone else, and will do so in ways that come to seem no more self-justifiable (Mitchell 84). Huckleberry Finn makes a transition from that of a young …

…moral and grown up Huckleberry Finn. Through the progression of all of these incidents we come see the ripening of Huckleberry Finn’s maturity. How this dirt-poor thirteen-year-old boy made the transition from a passive peer in the shadow of Tom Sawyer and came to be a man with a strong moral code and everlasting friendship with a runaway slave whom he befriended and learned so much from during their experiences down the Mississippi River.