Huckleberry Finn Ch 23-27

In previous chapters two significant characters become introduced to the story, the king and the duke. Both of these men were thrown into the setting rapidly and unexpectedly. The reader has a short amount of time to familiarize with these characters until they begin to play a large roll in the story. Both the duke and the king are frauds and this is a concept that Huck is quick to pick up on, but Huck refrains from calling either of them out on it to avoid conflict, or informing Jim about their true identies. I believe that Huck not mentioning the fact that the king and the duke are as a matter of fact not a king or a duke, shows that he is becoming more mature. Huck is becoming more mature buy not creating a conflict when it is not needed and is easily avoided, because he is already living a fast paced and difficult lifestyle that does not need any added tension. Since the king and the duke are not harming Huck or Jim by pretending to be people that they are not, it is not necessary to make them reveal themselves, but it is possible that the duke and king meet trouble later in the novel if they continue to scam people in towns of their money, which is something that Huck needs to recognize as to not let them get him into trouble.