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    relevance of others. The novel The Adventure of Huck Finn by Mark Twain is about a boy, Huck Finn, who runs away from the unjust laws set by the ignorance of his society. He and a runaway slave travel down the Mississippi River which soon relives the perspective of the young boy who rebels from his society. Huck Finn is a rogue who represents realism. In the beginning of the story, we are introduced to a young boy named Tom Sawyer who is a peer of Huck Finn.Though they are both orphans and crave…

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    and joins Huck on a flight down the Mississippi River so that he doesn’t have to get sold. Huck is the narrator and the main character in the novel. He wants freedom as well, but he wants a different kind of freedom. He hates having to be civilized because he prefers to be independent. He also hates getting abused by his dad, so he fakes his death by killing a pig with an axe and jumps in the river. Tom Sawyer is Huck’s civilized friend. He enjoys crazy stories and schemes. He finds Huck at his…

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    across the American South with a runaway slave. As Huck travels, he encounters many obstacles along the way that each portray a theme Mark Twain is trying to convey to his audience. Huckleberry Finn’s encounter with the civilized world shows the true nature of the townspeople. This is seen first when Miss Watson and Widow Douglas try to change Huck to fit in with society without taking his best interests into consideration. Twain shows this when Huck says that Widow Douglas “would sivilize me”…

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    we can find a way that’s a little more complicated than that, Huck Finn.” (241). Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are the two most well-known characters among American readers, in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Tom and Huck are completely different from each other in nearly every way. In fact, they are polar opposites in basic living situations and in the ways in which they view the world.On the outside Huck and Tom are very adventurous orphans, but they have very different…

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    novel acts as an extension of Mark Twain’s other publication, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it goes on in the point-of -view of Huckleberry Finn and his adventures after trying to leave his “incarcerating” establishment and his drunk and abusive father, who in fact will do everything in order to obtain the money that Huck…

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    alongside Jim, a runaway slave. The towns along on the Mississippi River that Huck had visited made his noncompliance with society begin to grow as he began to constantly revert back to social isolation with Jim upon the raft due to the…

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    unsatisfied with the ending to Huckleberry Finn, but only after Tom Sawyer arrives. On the river, Huck and Jim grow a bond that is noticeable to anyone reading the story. At the beginning of the novel, Jim is seen like property because he is a slave and belongs to Miss Watson. Huck understands what is going on around him, but he goes along with the opinion of the majority. Once Huck escapes from Pap and goes to the river, things begin to change. Huck is alone and bored out of his mind, but…

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    Tom and Huck are known to be very similar characters, but they are in fact very different. They live completely different lives and process thought differently. So despite the fact that they are the same age, live in the same area, and period of time, they are completely different. One is loved by family, while the other is alone with a nasty drunk as a father. One attends school and Sunday church while the other is unable to read, write and doesn’t get the chance to attend church. One…

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    Adventures of Tom Sawyer is that friends will always be there for you and care for you no matter what you are going through. Three examples that support this theme are when Huck and Tom witnesses the murder, Becky and Tom being lost in the cave, and Tom encourages Huck to stay with Widow Douglas. To begin, Becky and Tom takes care of one another while they were lost in the cave. Going on their adventure in an unknown cave, Tom and Becky loses their path back to the exit. At their last hope, Tom…

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    most influential critic of his time, famously declared that Huck and Tom Sawyer may tell the lies of children but they do not, in Triling 's…

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