Tom Sawyer Compare And Contrast Essay

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.

“Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from individual-he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture,” (Twain xvii). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, takes place while a time of the 1800s, in a village near the Mississippi River. Tom Sawyer and his friends encounters many adventures throughout his boyhood. Tom’s decision making develops while his many adventures. He only think of himself when whitewashing, but later he puts others before himself and gets himself and Becky out of a bad situation, he caused.

In Huckleberry Finn, Huck comes from the lower levels of white society, having a father who is a drunk who disappears constantly. Widow Douglas adopts him and attempts to reform him, although she has difficulties. Huck does not accept the ways of society, and often tells Widow that he would rather go live in hell for a change of scenery. The Widow tries to teach him how to read and tries to make him religious. Although the Widow’s efforts do finally teach

Tom Sawyer from “The adventures of Tom Sawyer” and José from “Born Worker” share few values. Tom is more of a trickster who wants to get out of working so he tricks people into doing it for him. José on the other hand is a born worker. The two charters have a couple similarities, but their differences set them apart.

The only thing that distinguishes the two characters is that Tom’s motives were based off of the adventure books he’s read, whereas Huck has more common sense because all of his motives are based on experience and not fiction. Tom’s common sense is compared to Huck’s in chapter 3 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when Tom claims that (he fought a pack of Spaniards and A-rabs) “[Huck says], But there warn’t no Spaniards and A-rabs, and there warn’t no camels nor no elephants. It warn’t anything but a Sunday- school picnic...” (Twain 13) “So then I judged that all that stuff was one of Tom Sawyer’s lies. I reckoned he believed in the A-rabs and elephants, but for me I think different”(Twain 14).

It can also be considered an “opposites attract” scheme by Twain. As Tom has a stable, loving family and a home to go too. While Huck who is considered an orphan (due to being the town drunks son) sleeps where he wants, eats what he wants (if he can) and is never forced to go to school or do his “duties”. Most Importantly, Huck has fended for himself for years, and because of it has developed common sense beyond his years and grounding him self in his harsh reality. This is a stark contrast to Tom Sawyer, who creates worlds in his mind and has deep imagination. Even with all these differences Tom still envies the free spirited Huck and will go to great lengths to prove himself, even if Huck sees Tom as his closest friend already.

Huck often cannot understand Tom’s Romantic ideals due to his practical nature, but Huck complacently follows him because he sees Tom as an authoritative figure. When Tom Sawyer starts his gang, Huck questions Tom’s made up adventures, noting

Huck’s dad doesn’t really seem to care much about Huck. My parents don’t take my money that I earn to by alcohol to get drunk, like Huck’s dad. My parents encourage me to go to school. Huck Finn’s dad won’t allow him to go to school. Pap Finn, Huck’s dad, doesn’t want Huck to go to school because he doesn’t want Huck to be smarter than him.

Tom loves to make every plan more complex like when he was trying to save Jim, a slave. He wants to dig a tunnel all the way to Jim, which is absolutely insane. Then, Sawyer wants to add snakes and different creatures to Jim’s room to make it like a real prison. This is also insane. Tom just wants to add more fun to his own adventure not caring if it troubles others. Tom says “It’s as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row, and as easy as playing hooky. I should hope we can find a way that’s a little more complicated than that, Huck Finn” (Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 212). He even knew Jim was a free man. However, Huck is a realistic person. Huck wants to get Jim out as fast and effectively as possible. His plan was to just steal a key and leave with Jim. Huck does this because he views Jim as a close friend, not just a piece of property. Jim also loves Huck like he is own family. Cassander Smith says, “Jim's actions, though, register more than a concern for his own self-interest. He also exhibits protectiveness for Huck's childish sensibilities” (Smith). Mark Twain makes them similar, by being adventurous, but in different ways. By doing this, he once again creates another unique and memorable trait for Tom and Huck. The audience really gets to feel them personally because they can relate to Tom and Huck’s minds. In conclusion, Tom has an overwhelming imagination while Huck is a realistic

When Huck stops Tom’s carriage, Tom believes Huck to be a ghost, but once Huck explains the situation, Tom agrees to help Huck. Once Huck and Tom arrive at Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas’ home, Aunt Sally welcomes Huck, whom she had met earlier in the day and believes to be Tom Sawyer, and offers Tom a meal and ride down to Mr. Archibald Nichols’ home. During dinner, “[Huck is] getting a little nervous, and wondering how this was going to help [him] out of [his] scrape, and at last, still talking to along, [Tom] reached over and kissed Aunt Sally right on the mouth” (190). Aunt Sally outraged by this action from a person she believes she does not know as friend or family. Tom continues on to say that people told him that Aunt Sally likes kissing. Aunt Sally, still mad, is confused as to why a stranger kissed her on the mouth. Tom turns to Silas then to Huck, ‘Tom, didn’t you think Aunt Sally’d open out her arms and say, “Sid Sawyer–“’ (191). Tom’s effort to keep Huck safe and to help rescue Jim demonstrates how bold Tom acts, and how, for Huck, Tom would do nearly anything. The fact that Tom willingly lies to his own family proves that even as a follower of society, Tom still has some form of a moral compass. Though much less bold than lying to his own family, Tom participates in the planning of and freeing Jim. To Tom, loyalty is extremely important, so helping Jim is, in Tom’s own standards, less bold. Huck makes a simple plan to free Jim, while the boys use Tom’s plan. According to Huck’s statement, “Well, one thing was dead sure; and that was, that Tom Sawyer was in earnest and was actuily going to help steal that n– out of slavery” (195), Tom dedicated himself fully to help Huck, once again. Tom does write the Phelpses a letter as to warn of the escape plan. This goes against the boldness that Tom presents to Huck in helping to free Jim, but as previously mentioned,

Early on, we see Huck following suit with Tom’s escapades, yet Huck matures rather fast. He soon quits the “gang” and no longer believes in Sawyer’s tomfoolery, and the fantasies Tom spins as taken from his numerous adventure novels. “…I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s Lies”. (115). Huck has reached a point, as do most kids, where a child begins to latch on to what the real

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are two close friends, but are also very different from each other. While one lives in a well-respected family, the other is abandoned out onto the streets. While one boy is liked by almost everyone in the community, the other is looked down on by society. The only similarities the two companions have together are their bravery and courageousness, their strong belief in superstition, and their love of adventure. Despite their many differences, both boys know when to make the right decision, and both value friendship above all.

One thing different between Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer is that Huck has no family. Huck lives with the widow and her sister, Miss Watson. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer made a gang and they would kill people. One of the rules of the club was if anyone told anyone else about what happened they would kill that person and their family. One of the boys in the gang pointed out that Huck had no family so it wasn’t fair for him to be in the gang. Huck thought he was not going to be able to be in the gang but then “all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson - they could kill her”. And he was allowed in the gang because the boys agreed that they could just kill Miss Watson if Huck told anyone.

very much to be able to live a life not bound by rules and acting

Tom and Huck are happy and rich and they promise to always stay together. The main character of the book is Tom Sawyer. Tom is an imaginative young man. Whenever Tom plays he pretends to be a pirate or Robin Hood and his friends would be his merry men.