Character Development in Literature

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This paper examines three classic works of literature, "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo and "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand and discusses the development of the main characters in each of the stories. The paper uses the stories to illustrate how protagonists are developed in literature and how their development often influences the development of the story itself.

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"An excellent example of a coming-of-age story is Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, in which the protagonist, Huck, grapples with issues of slavery and personal freedom. At the beginning of the story, Huck desires one thing: to be free of his father. But his journey down the river with an escaped slave, Jim, forces Huck to consider the differences between his own reach for freedom and Jim's. It's not legal for him to help Jim run away, but is it right? Huck's journey down the river is not just a physical one, it becomes a moral one as well, and by the end of the novel, he ceases viewing Jim as Miss Watson's property and views him instead as a human being."

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