Friendship In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Chosen Theme: Friendship Throughout the book “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Huck goes through different things that allows him to meet new people and adventure the southern slave states. At first Huck has a best friend and that is Tom Sawyer but that friendship sort of goes away as Huck matures throughout the book. Tom Sawyer is Huck’s friend up until the part when they created that group and they were imagining doing things like stealing, killing, but Huck realized that Tom was silly for pretending to have a gang and imagining ambushing the A-rabs or taking woman hostage. Someone that Huck started out and hated was the Widow and Ms.Watson, and also the slave Jim, but reading through the book you soon realize that Huck begins to go

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