In Mark Twain 's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", main characters Huck and Jim go on a journey down the Mississippi River toward a discovery of self and the many faults of pre Civil War society. This novel is described as an estranged sequel to Twain 's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer", which sets up the potential for foils to appear between books. Huck, Tom, and their world serves as a satirical space for Twain 's critical opinions of our own world. One way he accomplishes this is to counterbalance Huck with Tom, creating a foil between the two in their upbringing, reactions to social norms, and what they represent.
Both Huck and Tom were raised in the rural town of St.Petersburg, Missouri and are of similar age and a taste for adventure but that …show more content…
Tom was raised by his motherly aunt who is a respectable citizen of St. Petersburg, allowing him to become popular around town. Aunt Polly makes Tom go to school even though he doesn’t ever seem to want to, unlike Huck who wants to learn. The other boys, including Tom, seem to be jealous of Huck 's freedom, his having little to no parental supervision just a daydream to the rest. When Huck is under the widow’s watch he gets to the point as to proclaim “I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.” (5) as he was so used to Pap’s neglect allowing him to be able to have adventures with Tom and the others. This results in what one could call a social foil between the two, because of the pair’s opposed childhood.
Huck tends to do his own thinking about things before making a final decision. An example of his doing so is Huck’s …show more content…
Huck’s life is a near perfect portrayal as to how cruel real life can be, while Tom’s allows him to become a clique hero of a romantic work because of his comfortable upbringing. When Twain declares that “Every time he (Pap) got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raised Cain around town: and every time he raised Cain he got jailed.” readers tend to feel sorry for Huck, knowing that this is an actual thing that happens to people, further expanding on Huck’s realism. Romantic literature usually has a set of rules to follow in order to be counted as so. Tom shows how much of a romantic he is by proclaiming "It don 't make no difference how foolish it is, it 's the RIGHT way—and it 's the regular way. And there ain 't no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I 've read all the books that gives any information about these things.” (283) when discussing with Huck how to go about helping Jim to escape. Tom has probably become like this because the books he so takes after are probably of the romantic era, the 1840’s being the peck and the setting of “Huck”. Twain 's dislike of the romantic movement is evident here because Jim 's life is out in danger because Tom 's way of thought. Here we find another theme of "Huckleberry Finn". Twain is using this book and "Tom Sawyer" to rebell against the Romantic movement.
To someone who reads "Huckleberry Finn" without thinking
Both Huck and Tom were raised in the rural town of St.Petersburg, Missouri and are of similar age and a taste for adventure but that …show more content…
Tom was raised by his motherly aunt who is a respectable citizen of St. Petersburg, allowing him to become popular around town. Aunt Polly makes Tom go to school even though he doesn’t ever seem to want to, unlike Huck who wants to learn. The other boys, including Tom, seem to be jealous of Huck 's freedom, his having little to no parental supervision just a daydream to the rest. When Huck is under the widow’s watch he gets to the point as to proclaim “I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.” (5) as he was so used to Pap’s neglect allowing him to be able to have adventures with Tom and the others. This results in what one could call a social foil between the two, because of the pair’s opposed childhood.
Huck tends to do his own thinking about things before making a final decision. An example of his doing so is Huck’s …show more content…
Huck’s life is a near perfect portrayal as to how cruel real life can be, while Tom’s allows him to become a clique hero of a romantic work because of his comfortable upbringing. When Twain declares that “Every time he (Pap) got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raised Cain around town: and every time he raised Cain he got jailed.” readers tend to feel sorry for Huck, knowing that this is an actual thing that happens to people, further expanding on Huck’s realism. Romantic literature usually has a set of rules to follow in order to be counted as so. Tom shows how much of a romantic he is by proclaiming "It don 't make no difference how foolish it is, it 's the RIGHT way—and it 's the regular way. And there ain 't no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I 've read all the books that gives any information about these things.” (283) when discussing with Huck how to go about helping Jim to escape. Tom has probably become like this because the books he so takes after are probably of the romantic era, the 1840’s being the peck and the setting of “Huck”. Twain 's dislike of the romantic movement is evident here because Jim 's life is out in danger because Tom 's way of thought. Here we find another theme of "Huckleberry Finn". Twain is using this book and "Tom Sawyer" to rebell against the Romantic movement.
To someone who reads "Huckleberry Finn" without thinking