Initiation in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Essay

Initiation in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, â€Å"Initiation† is the main idea, in other words the â€Å"major theme.† In an initiation narrative, the protagonist, who in this case was Huck Finn, goes through a rite of passage, a growing up process, which is multifaceted. In a moment of crisis, the protagonist is suddenly obliged to make the painful and alarming transition from childhood to adulthood; this passage is known as the initiation. The initiation is the protagonist’s first step or movement into a new beginning. It is essentially a process by which the hero gains self-knowledge and finds his own identity. In the process, he also learns about the world in which he lives and the nature of evil. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel...