Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a bildungsroman (coming of age novel) as well as a picaresque (a story that occurs during a journey). Huck embarks on an adventure that transforms him from a naïve child to a mature young adult. Throughout his journey, Huck experiences many encounters that help change him like staying at the Grangerfords, traveling with the duke and dauphin, and freeing Jim from the Phelps family. Huck does not want to be "sivilized". He begins his journey on the river as a young boy looking for adventure and wanting to escape society because he is trapped between being educated and housed by the Widow Douglas and living in the wild with his drunken, illiterate father. Through Huck's decision making and going against society he becomes an individual and a leader rather than a follower of society.…
