“The Adventures of Heck Finn” Is a story of a boy named Heck who travels down the Mississippi with a slave named Jim. In this story Heck goes through major changes and has to make decisions that shape who he is as a person. All of these choices that he makes are the points that develop Heck as the story progresses, Heck as one character dose develop major throughout the story. In the beginning of the story Heck is very resistant to the was that The Widow tries to “civilize” him. An example is the quote, “She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up” (9-10).
This is where Mark Twain first shows this attitude of Heck and sets up a “structure” of who Heck Is at the beginning. One of the developments that Heck goes though Is when we see how superstitious he really is. Proof of this is, “The widow put in a good word for me, but that warn ;t going to keep off the bad luck, I endowed that well enough” (24). Here Mark Twain is giving more on who Heck is as a person, and how he generally feels about specific topics. As the story progresses a little further Heck seems to be a very “in the now” type of character, he doesn’t really take a liking into what happened in the past.
An example of this Is when he states, “Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then didn’t care no more about him; because I don’t take no stock In dead people” (10). At this point we can see Husk’s early development, and how Mark Twain is going to shape his later on developments. Husk’s development though the first few chapters is already giving major detail on who he is; and the way Mark Twain is setting up is to make future developments happen/visible. Mark Twain is a very great writer; the way he can make his characters come to life and be so relatable through the development Is one of the reasons that make him great.
