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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, shows the transformations a teenage boy goes through to find himself. The main character, a boy by the name of Huck Finn finds himself in many situations, all very different and complex. These situations give him new perspectives on life and living throughout the book. His adventures include getting away from his money-grubbing drunkard father all the way to living with an upper class southern family involved …

…he also knew that in his heart and in God's mind, it would be a terrible thing to send Jim back to what's not right. By the end of the story, Huckleberry Finn really did find himself. To much of the mainstream of the society back in slavery times, he would be considered an Abolitionist, but to freedom and morals, he was a young man who had found himself as a non- conformist to society.