Huck Finn: Part III

Finishing this book one can definitely see the changes that Huck went through in this book. Thus due to these changes we are able to incorporate it into our list of books representing a bildungsroman. During the first part of the book we see that Huck is more of a sidekick to Tom Sawyer, (as mentioned by Dr. Larson). Huck would in a way glorify anything that Tom did believing it was the best way of doing it. Yet in the end we found that although Huck would listen to Tom, Huck would have his own idea of how things would work out best in the end. Having had this personal growth with regards to his way of thinking helped him decide later on that he would; “prefer to go to hell!!” in order to help Jim. This is the most important aspect of this novel, making it a blidungsroman because despite adversity and despite the decisions that Huck could have made, he chose those options which undoubtedly changed him and made of him who he was supposed to become.