How Does Tom Sawyer Influence Huck's Ideology?

Starting at the beginning of the novel, Miss Watson and the widow have custody of Huck. He praises a boy named Tom Sawyer who has decided he is going to start a gang. In order for Huck to join the gang, he has to agree to the murdering of his family if they break the rules. At this point in the book one of the boys realized that Huck did not have a real family. “They talked it over...and so I offered them Miss Watson-they could kill her.” (Twain 17-18). Here you bear witness to huck at his utmost point of immorality. A person with morals would not ever sacrifice the life of someone else just in order to be part of a gang. This is where you can consider the start of Huck’s Moral improvement.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with the boy, Huckleberry (Huck for short), telling a story in a very conversational tone. The story is a recap of Twain’s previous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Huck and Tom find a robber’s treasure of 12 thousand dollars, and invest it in the bank. Tom had apparently reached out to Huck again, asking him to join Tom’s very own band of robbers. Huck, of course, agreed, and moved back in with Widow Douglas, who cares for him, and makes sure he remains clean. Huck, however, is selfish, and dislikes being “civilized.” He accepts religious and social views the widow enforces upon him, yet decides for himself if he wants to follow them, and doesn’t tell her so as to not cause any unnecessary

He accepts Tom's insistence of the "Spaniards," "A-rabs," "camels," and "elephants" presence at the Sunday school (227), but silently disagrees: "I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies" (228). Huck's passivity towards Tom is likely a result of the companionship Tom offers. Huck reports "I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead" (221) just prior to going out at night with Tom and going along with his fantasy-derived descriptions and rules for the gang (222-5). Ultimately, Tom's company is more important to Huck than honesty.

In Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the protagonist, Huck Finn, undergoes a transformative journey that shapes his character and challenges societal norms. Throughout the narrative, Huck evolves from a carefree and naive boy to a morally conscious individual who grapples with complex issues of race, morality, and personal freedom. This character study will explore Huck's development through three key aspects: his independence and defiance of societal norms, his moral growth and empathy, and his struggle for personal freedom and autonomy. Through these lenses, we gain insight into Huck's complexities as a character and the profound impact of his experiences on the Mississippi River. At the beginning of the story, Huck is portrayed as a carefree and adventurous boy

Huck thinks that Tom has everything he doesn’t. Having Toms traits are impressive and can be useful and his life seems superb but in the end who he is and what he has is not everything. Tom is lacking the most important thing,and that is moral

Huck as a boy part of the poor white society, highlights that moral values can differ even within the same race. As a child, Huck represents a character not yet manipulated by society. At the beginning of the book, Huck is not yet influenced by Tom Sawyer, his id’s, romanticizing of stereotypical society. When individuals attempt to civilize Huck through warning him about the “bad place”, Huck exclaims that “all he wanted was to go somewhere; all he wanted was a change” (Twain 2). Huck does not believe in a stereotypical heaven or hell as portrayed in religion.

People can change when obstacles are thrown in front of them. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Huck changes morally. The novel begins with Huckleberry Finn, the main character, running away from home and faking his death. He runs into his aunt's runaway slave and they decide to escape to the north together. Huck starts out as a selfish little boy who has racist beliefs.

Huck, who is a child in a book, has a lot of room for development. In the beginning, he was taught to follow the rules of society like practicing Catholicism and refusing to associate with slaves. However, during Huck’s journey with Jim, he learns a valuable lesson about respecting people based on their character, despite what he was taught by Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and Tom Sawyer. During the first few days of his journey, he pulls pranks on Jim, like attempting to trick him into thinking that getting lost in the fog was all a dream. However, later on in his journey, he refuses to follow the rules of society in order to save Jim. He even says “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” when he chooses not to tell Miss Watson Jim’s whereabouts (Twain 214). Jim in turn sees Huck as a great friend as well, thus showing how Huck is now seen as a

Huck has an established sense of morality which changes throughout the novel, his moral development is shown through Huck’s guilt when he is presented with two opperunities to turn Jim in, and how he feels after choosing not to. Huck was raised to believe that white people were above black people, and that slaves were nothing more than property. This is shown through the way he treats Ms. Watsons slave Jim. He thought it was ok to treat him like property, to play mean tricks on him with Tom Sawyer, and still expect him to do all of Ms.Watsons hard work. As Huck and Jim meet on Jacksons Island,and travel down the river, sharing their adventure, Huck comes to see things differently.Huck discovers that Jim knows valuable camping information to help them while they’re on the island, He finds out that Jim has a family that he loves and cares about, and that he is deeply troubled because he may never get to see them again. After all of this Huck comes to the realization that Jim is his friend, and when Huck and Jim run into slave capturers on the river, Huck is faced with the decision to

Tom Sawyer, as a physical boy in the story, plays the role of mob leader in Huck 's life. When the two boys are together, Tom pressures Huck to follow him, and therefore assimilate to mob mentality, by repeatedly dismissing Huck 's ideas. For example, when Huck questions Tom 's story of the genies, Tom says "Shucks, it ain 't no use to talk to you, Huck Finn. You don 't seem to know anything, somehow" (Twain, 19). Here, Tom casts aside Huck 's questions by essentially calling

Tom Sawyer is one of Huck’s friends that always talks about hitting licks on different people, and he isn’t that smart due to his exaggerating imagery used on pages 12 to 13. Miss Watson is a very religious woman that preaches to Huck about believing in god. Widow Douglas is not liked by huck because he “adopted and tried to “sivillize” Huck”.

Widow Douglas is a Christian woman who takes care of Huck while his father is absent. She is the main mother figure that Huck has; therefore, has an influential role in Huck’s moral development. The Widow is extremely willing to take Huck in. In the beginning of this novel, Huck explains that, “the Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would civilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time…”(Chapter 1). Widow Douglas enjoyed the task of making Huck civilized. To Widow Douglas, being a civilized human means being proper, polite and acting in a respectful manner. In her house, there are strict rules, and no leniency for breaking them. She teaches Huck about the Bible, and makes him say grace before every meal. Her morality includes always acting in a traditional conforming way. When Huck and Tom are conversing about a hypothetical genie situation, Tom says; ”how you talk, Huck Finn. Why, you'd HAVE to come when he rubbed it, whether you wanted to or not" (Chapter 3). Tom knows that Huck is well mannered. He knows that even if Huck does not want to do something, he will if it is the right thing to do because of the values that the widow has instilled on him. Widow Douglas does not allow Huck to argue against her, for her word is always what goes. Widow Douglas has pure intentions for Huck in her efforts to make him into a civil man. She forces Huck to rid himself his bad

Through the theme of rebellion against society, Huck demonstrates the importance of thinking for oneself and embodies the idea that adults are not always right. This is highlighted in his noncompliance when it comes to learning the Bible and in the decisions he makes when it comes to Jim, decisions that prove to be both illegal and dangerous. By refusing to conform to standards he does not agree with, Huck relies on his own experiences and inner conscience when it comes to making decisions. As a result, Huck is a powerful vehicle for Mark Twain’s commentary on southern society and

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer appears in St Petersburg and at the Phelps’ farm as Huck Finn’s companion. Though Tom serves as Huck’s partner-in-crime of sorts, the two boys contrast in crucial perceptual and behavioral aspects: where Tom possesses a love for romanticism and a strict policy of adherence to societal conventions and codes, Huck possesses a skeptical sort of personality in which he tends to perceive society’s infatuations as frivolous. Tom’s presence represents an overlying trend in behavior for Mark Twain’s era wherein individuals adhere to an idealistic social code that justifies the subjugation of others for the entertainment of the privileged populus. In this regionalist critical novel, Mark Twain uses Tom Sawyer as a vehicle to reveal the dangers of an idealistic society and how idealism leads to society rationalizing its day-to-day standards; thereby, its idealism serves to hide the questionable moral behaviors prevalent in Twain’s era.

Huck Finn seemed like a rebel without a cause right from the start. He seemed as if he hadn’t a care in the world. Huckleberry Finn was also greatly influenced by Tom Sawyer. Huck even joined a band of robbers called “Tom Sawyer’s Gang” in which a group of young boys pretend to capture, rob, and murder people. He saw Tom as a role model, someone who he could look up to. Huck’s decisions during the course of the novel are solely based on Tom and whether he would see fit to it. Huck appeared as a naïve troublemaker in the beginning of the novel.