The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Bildungsroman

The novel of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a young boy, Huck, coming of age. It is a story of Huck's struggle to win freedom for himself and Jim, a runway slave. The many adventures that Huck goes on become a learning process to maturity by learning to be self-sufficient, sic "sivilize", adverse, and adventurous. Mark Twain examines the influence of adults that Huck experiences during his childhood By Pap teaching …

…Jim who teach him lessons that prove to be useful along his journey to freedom. He come to realize how his life changed throughout his experiences, and he believes that the society he was born into is corrupted by the same people who taught him his life lessons. Fortunately, because of the money and the lack of legal control, he plans to "light out for the Territory ahead of the rest" (220), where he seeks freedom