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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.

In Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the adults in Huck's life play an important role in the development of the plot. Pap, Huck's father, constantly abuses the boy, never allowing him to become an intelligent or decent human being. He beats and attacks Huck whenever they meet up, and tries to destroy Huck's chances of having a normal life. This situation is balanced by several good role models and parent figures for Huck. Jim, the runaway slave, embraces Huck like a son, and shares his wide ranging knowledge with him. He also protects Huck on the journey down the river. Widow Douglas is another good role model for Huck. She tries to civilize him and make him respectable to society,

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

Huck hides out on Jackson's Island and for the first time in a while has no authoritative figure controlling him. Even when he discovers Jim, the Widow's slave, Huck doesn't consider himself "outranked." Huck has been taught that a runaway slave is an evil thing. Being able to make his own decision about the matter, however, Huck decides to go against society. "People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum - but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell" (43). This is Huck's first sign of maturity as we find that he is able to make his own decisions.

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, we are introduced to Huck a boy of about 13 years of age. From a young age Huck grows up in the absence of both his parents. However, Huck is raised by two women who take him in as family, the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, who make it their goal to “sivilize” (Twain 1) Huck. In the plot of this novel we learn that Huck is beaten repeatedly, and even kidnapped by his overbearing and critical father, Pap. We also learn that Pap, because he is always drunk, is an intimidating figure in Huck's life. Twain also writes about a character named Jim; Jim was Miss Watson's slave, freed after her death. Throughout the novel, Twain creates a strong friendship between Huck

In the prime first half of the book, the author explicates that Tom Sawyer is extremely childish and immature at numerous times throughout the inception of the novel. The readers can lucidly see this even in the first chapter, in which Tom encounters an elaborate, new boy in town and “In an instant, both boys were rolling and tumbling in the dirt, gripped together like cats. . . ” (Twain, 81). Tom also fascinates himself with unconventional things such as: “a large black beetle-pinchbug”, “dead cat”, “doorknobs”, and “a tick”. Furthermore, Tom also tends to do foolish and obviate things in attempts to achieve something and then realizes that these endeavors fail. A definite factor in the development of Tom’s mischievous nature is that his parents

“When Huck plans to head west... he is trying to avoid more than regular baths and mandatory school attendance” (Sparknotes 1). This quote summarizes the whole purpose of Huckleberry Finn’s journey throughout the novel, because even though he is only a young boy and his only concerns should be school and bathing, he has to worry about much more “adult” topics, such as helping an escaped slave and dealing with his abusive, alcoholic father. However, throughout these endeavors, he struggles with his conscience and the ideas that have been placed upon him by the people around him, while also trying to maintain his good heart. Examples of this ongoing battle in Huck’s mind include whether or not slavery is acceptable, the stark difference between the 2 gods that Miss Watson and the Widow argue about, and the seemingly pointless feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. One may think that these thoughts would take over Huck’s personality and make him into a more hateful, prejudiced, person, but Huck remains good hearted and true to himself until the end of the book, showing that he truly does have “a deformed conscience but a good heart.”

Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck’s morality changes and shifts, growing into thoughts that are separate from those of society. At the start of the novel, he shares similar ideas with the others of the society he lives in, but as the book goes on, Huck comes to realize that what society thinks is right isn’t always right. He learns that sometimes, what society thinks is the opposite of what’s morally right in his eyes. One of the most important moments in which Huck’s views change is when he is writing to Miss Watson, the woman he lives with in the beginning of the novel.

He can see that the King and the Duke treat others unfairly. As he puts it at first,”It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars...[were] just low-down humbugs and frauds....If I never learned nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.”( 100) However, Huck comes to realize the wrongs they do to society. The particular incident where this occurs is when they take advantage of orphaned girls. Huck decides to tell Mary Jane what liars they are, stating “...here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better and actually safer than a lie." (132) Huck clearly views the girls as equal to him, knowing that it is the morally right thing to help a white family. This is Twain’s irony appearing in the book again, as Huck can see all the wrongs in society, except the big one of slavery. He truly believes that helping a white family is meritable, while helping a black slave will send him to

She took me as her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time.... so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again and I was free and satisfied" (1). Huckleberry often rejected the women's regulations, for he found them superfluous.

In the novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Mark Twain writes about Huck and the adventures his faces as he travels down the Mississippi River, along with his companion Jim. Throughout the story, Huck experiences obstacles that make him question society’s perspective and morals. As Huck spends more and more time with Jim, their friendship grow and Huck begins to see Jim as more than just a companion but a close friend. This causes Huck to challenge the morality behind slavery and ultimately decides to guide Jim to freedom. At this point in time, Huck has had an realization and decides to make his own path with his own beliefs and standards separating himself from society.

Huck’s Moral Strength’s and Changes in Morality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn English 10: American Literature Caitlin Foht November 21, 2014 Growing up and maturing is a natural involvement that every single individual acquaints themselves with at one point or another in their duration of life. We establish skills and lifelong habits that we may not have been cognizant of during the previous years of living. Everyone looks forward to a point in their lives where they can look back and see how much they have matured and even think about all of the immature decisions that they have made in the past. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, a 13 year old

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain the character Huckleberry Finn shows neglect, the parents in town despise him, and all the children admire him. Huck Finn shows neglect by the way he physically looks. The clothes that he wears are the clothes of a grown man, as a result they are baggy and torn from being over-worn. This is because his father does not care for him or buy him the correct size clothing. The parents that live in the town despise Huck because they view him as being a potential bad influence on their children. They forbid their children from being around him or playing with him. Huck’s father is a drunkard and the adults in the town are aware of this, so they do not want their kids around Huck. They fear that his father’s

Huck wanted to learn about religion, but he could never bring himself too it because of his lack of interest. He also did not believe in it because Miss Watson told him that whatever he prayed for, he would get. “But it warn’t so. [...He] tried it. [...He] tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow [...he] couldn’t make it work” (ch3). Huck viewed the slaves in a different light. He did not just see them as objects to be owned and sold. He knew he could not do whatever he pleased with them because to him, unlike the majority of society, they were actual people with feelings and emotions. When Jim ran away from Miss Watson, even though Huck knew him to be “most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches” (ch2), he still gave him a chance and treated him as if he were anyone else to go along with him on his adventures. He believes what he is told until he finds that it actually is not the case. Even though the rest of society wanted him to and would have turned Jim in, Huck’s kind heart told him that the people were wrong and to do what he thought was morally right. Authority was also a challenge for young Huckleberry. He disobeys his father which is a young boy’s largest role model as well as authority figure. Pap tells him to “looky here--mind

The environment that a person places themselves in greatly influences their personality and character. Huckleberry Finn, the main protagonist in Mark Twain’s work, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, clearly develops as a product of his surroundings. Two characters that indirectly play a crucial part in the development of Huckleberry Finn are the duke and the king whose fundamental objective in the novel is to help mature Huck into a respectable man. The role of the king and the duke is to indirectly establish moral guidelines into Huckleberry through their gimmicky shows, and the relentless control of Jim. They also demand the utmost respect of royalty from Huck too.