Huck seems very capable of adapting to the various environments he has been exposed to. Used to living a free and unstructured life, he is plunged into a lifestyle very different at Miss Watson's house. Education, clothes, and a bed are things he is unaccustomed to, but he eventually learns to appriciate and enjoy them. Just when Huck gets used to his new surroundings, his father takes him away to live in a cabin on an isolated island. He immediately goes back to his old way of life, encouraged by his uncivilized father. He wonders how he could have liked living in proper society with the widow, when his 'new' life has no rules or requirements.
"...and i didn't see how I'd ever got to like it so well at the widow's, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and be forever bothering over a book, and have old Miss Watson pecking at you all the time."
(Twain 34)
This easy transition between civilization and the wild show how adaptable Huck is to whatever comes his way.
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