“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck,” said Tom. “Tom, it don’t make no difference. I ain’t everybody, and I can’t stand it, Huck replied” (Twain, p. 222). In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer there is a reoccurring theme of hypocrisy and a class of outcasts in society. This is especially true for Huckleberry Finn since he was generally shunned by everyone in the town. He lived in the outskirts of the village and in the forest. It wasn’t until he saved Ms. Douglas that he was treated normally. Ms. Douglas even decided to take care of Huck as his guardian, but he didn’t like being in a normal home (Twain p. 218). He didn’t want to have to worry about going to school, getting up at the same time, going to bed at the same time, and keeping himself clean and well dressed (Twain p. 223). In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom would always try to play with Huck, go on adventures, or plan mischief when he could.
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He was born on November 3, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Clemens started as an itinerant typesetter and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi. This career was cut short by the start of the Civil War. Afterwards he became a prospector and a journalist for five years. He first started writing under the pseudonym Mark Twain in 1863. Samuel wrote four books before writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, and would go on to write six more books afterwards (Twain, p. i).
This paper argues that people in society can be hypocritical. Society can be hypocritical because people can be bipolar, other people can be misjudged and shunned, labeled wrongly, or considered an outcast. One can be ignorant sometimes or lacking facts and the truth about other
He was born on November 3, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Clemens started as an itinerant typesetter and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi. This career was cut short by the start of the Civil War. Afterwards he became a prospector and a journalist for five years. He first started writing under the pseudonym Mark Twain in 1863. Samuel wrote four books before writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876, and would go on to write six more books afterwards (Twain, p. i).
This paper argues that people in society can be hypocritical. Society can be hypocritical because people can be bipolar, other people can be misjudged and shunned, labeled wrongly, or considered an outcast. One can be ignorant sometimes or lacking facts and the truth about other