John Brady Cole and Huckleberry Finn are similar based on the fact that they both ran away, while their motivations were different. Although Huck hadn’t been completely content living with the Widow Douglas, he seemed to rather that than live with his father. He didn’t like how it felt that the widow was always trying to civilize him. She had him go to school and …show more content…
Huck's father was a drunk and the book does not mention Huck’s mother. Huck lived with the widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, whom he didn’t have a great connection with either. He seemed to be very close with Tom and grew a connection with Jim throughout the book, but neither were family. John was pretty close with his mother at the beginning of the book but they were still quite distant and started to grow even further apart. John’s father was a smoker and his mother was always away. The two were divorced and John’s mother had a very young boyfriend who was only two years older than John. These things probably bothered him and led him to not have a very good relationship with either of the two. Huckleberry Finn and John Brady had poor connections with their families for some of the same reasons. For example, both of their fathers had addictions. John’s father’s excessive smoking bothered John and Huck’s drunken dad often abused him. Huck’s mother is not mentioned and John’s mother rarely seems to care about him because she has no problem leaving him all the time. Altogether John Brady Cole and Huckleberry Finn had lots in common, but also shared many differences. Their motivations were different as well as the level of difficulty of running away from their homes. The thing they had most in common was their weak connections with their