Similarities And Differences Between The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And To Kill A Mockingbird

The novels that I have chosen to compare are “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill A Mockingbird.” These books were written nearly a century apart from each other, Huck Finn written in 1884, and Mockingbird in 1960. Huck Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain, who also wrote “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.” While “To Kill A Mockingbird” was written by Harper Lee, who only wrote the one novel. Both books are set in the South, Alabama and along the Mississippi River. Even being written in completely different times, some of the same themes are covered. For example racism, inequality, social status, education, and fear of people who are different. Some of the differences are based the settings and century. Scout and Jem are poor …show more content…
Jim, is a man who ran away from his slavery home, in order to find his family, from which he was separated from many years before. Even though Jim is a fugitive, he is very wise and understands morals and teaches valuable lesson of decent morals to Huck as they are on the raft on the Mississippi River. However, Huck was an immature kid who didn 't have any rules and did as he wanted when he pleased. While on the raft, Huck played a trick on Jim, saying that it was just a dream when Jim was worried whether or not Huck was alright, but he thought it was hilarious to lie to Jim that it was just a dream. Huck learns how to apologize, and that a black man is just alike everyone around them and deserves respect. After this incident, Jim teaches Huck of kindness, friendship and why racism was a poor thing. Doing this, it helped Huck, do the right thing of protecting Jim from Ms. Watson when she was looking for …show more content…
Huck had gained a first-hand learning about how he should treat blacks as both Jim and Huck are riding the Mississippi River for freedom. Huck is escaping his father and the people who are trying to change him while Jim is trying to locate his family, who is was separated from. Jem and Scout have a black housemaid and were able to experience her views, and not too many other kids their age would be able to gain that form of education. Their father, Atticus, also has to fend for a black who is being accused of rape by a white person. And he doesn’t change his views, even when the white people hate him. Both of these novels are fighting for what is right, and wanting to change them, Jem doesn’t think that Tom (the black man who Atticus was fighting for) should have gone to jail, due to the fact that the whites won 't vote for his