Mr. Adaptable aka Huck

I feel like Huck is a very adaptable boy/young man...he may not always like the situation he's in at first but it seems like he usually end up liking it at least somewhat before long. When he goes back to live with Widow Thatcher, at first he moans and groans a bit about having to go back and be "sivilized", but then he realizes it might not be so bad after all. Huck says on page 22 "At first I hated school, but by and by I got so I could stand it...I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit." I think that because he's had to deal with some hard stuff in his life(a drunk, abusive dad whos never around, his mother being dead, etc.) he knows how to adapt, and maybe look on the brigter side of things. However, when he gets "kidnapped" by Pap, he seems very happy to revert to his old ways of smoking, living off the land, and wearing his old rags. Obviously he doesn't like when Pap gets drunk and beats him, but Huck still seems to want to please his dad, which is puzzling. If I had a dad like Pap I would never want to talk to him again. Huck's travels differ from Odyseuss' in that Huck seems to be much more adaptable, and in some ways, I think, more clever. Everyone hails Odyseuss as cunning and wise and clever, but I don't know if he could come up with the idea Huck did to escape from his Pap. Odyseuss also was dying to get home, while Huck is running away from his. Well Huck doesn't really have a home but he's running away from the closest thing he has to one.