The Impact of Childhood on Adulthood

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The writer discusses how childhood is a time when individuals learn who they are and grow into the person they will be for the rest of their lives. This is the journey of adolescence and the factors in the youth's environment shape this journey to determine who they will become. Each of these novels include a male character and shows how this character's childhood impacts on his adult life.

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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of the young boy Huck and his journey to becoming a man. At the beginning of the novel, Huck is a boy and by the end, he has changed into a man. This is the action that the novel is based on. There are several factors in Huck's childhood that impact on who he becomes. These include the fact that he does not have a father figure and the replacement father figure he finds in Jim. Huck's father is a man who cares only about himself and very little for his son. The prime example of this is when Huck's father finds out that Huck has money and returns to town to claim that money. On returning he beats Huck and locks him a cabin. This is not the caring father-son relationship a son needs to grow into a man. The nature of this relationship means that Huck has no effective father figure in his life."

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