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Andrew Almeidahuck Finn Self RelianceThis quote from Lauren Oliver speaks volumes on the mindset of Huck Finn Idrather die my way than live yours. Huck Finn is a young kid growing up in at a really chaotictime in America. Many ideas and bias are either forced upon him or he has no help butexperiencing. Rather than place up with this Huck decides he would be better off on hisown as opposed to trying to adapt to everyone elses standards. Living by him egotism put out tomany more challenges and opposing forces than a kid of only 13 should have to be facedwith. This lead to Huck being more mount than other kids his age because he had toconstantly rely on himself to solve his problems and come up with his own morales on whatis mightily and wrong without the guidance from others.Along with how this changed Huck as aperson for better or worse.Huck Finn is a very independent character. Being without a forefather figure and parentsof any loving leads him to have to grow up by himself. In doing so creating a character who isable to react and make decisions to help himself protrude out of the ruffle up he or his friends havegotten him into. Huck at such a young age is forced to look for jim to guidance on the riverbut Jim is no more educated than Huck is. This leads to Huck having to not only leadhimself but also try and take a leadership role to get Jim to safety. A great example ofwhere Huck is able to take his fate into his own hands by making an elaborate tale is whenhe is on shore dressed as a girl. He is caught in a lie but instead of risking the fate of Jimhe thinks quick and says I told her my father and mother was dead, and the law had boundme out to a mean old farmer in the country thirty mile back from the river, and he treated... ...hing because he is able to do it all himself. Nobody at thattime period in the south was willing to help him so he simply did what was right with nocaution as to whether not people would judge him Well, I did. I said I wo uldnt, and Ill stickto it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would plow me a lowdownAbolitionist and despise me forkeeping mumbut that dont make no difference. I aint agoingto tell, and I aint agoingback there, anyways. So, now, les know all about it. (8.52, 8.53). This self reliance andseparation from society is what allows Huck to be more accepting of new ideas andultimately is what makes this story takes place in the first place. Without Hucks selfreliance none of this ever would have been possible and Huck would have most likely neverleft the small town with his drunk deadbeat father and slave owning Miss.Watson andMiss.Douglas.