Huckleberry Finn Final Essay Huck Finn is the main character of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This young boy started out as an immature, troublemaker, and disrespectable teenager. Huck did not act his age at the beginning of the novel. He eventually had to change, but it takes time for someone to change or “grow up.” Towards the end of the book, Huck shows that he has changed and become a different but better person. He becomes a responsible boy with different ideas and thoughts about others. Huck comes of age with the help of his father figure, Jim, who teaches him to be responsible, to know right from wrong, to change his thoughts about slavery, and also with the help of Mary Jane who helps you realize that lying is wrong. bad. Huck desperately needed a father figure. He needed someone to lead. Mary Jane helped Huck open his eyes. Huck described her as the most beautiful girl in town. Huck wanted to protect her because after staying with her and getting to know her, he felt it was his job to protect her. The king and the duke steal and scam people. Huck got fed up and said, "And I'm letting him steal his money again!" » (Douain 188). Huck was tired of doing the wrong things. He wanted to do the right thing, especially for Mary Jane. Huck preferred to collect the money so he could give it to Mary later. This caused Huck to tell the truth. Huck even said, "I say to myself, I esteem that a body which stands up and speaks the truth when it finds itself in a difficult situation... but it seems to me that the truth is better, indeed safer, than a lie” (Twain 199-200). If Huck didn't realize he was doing the wrong thing and stood up for what he thought was right, he would never have learned this lesson. He now knows that lying is bad and that telling the truth is a lot