The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn s Life And The Book

Tom Sawyer plays a huge role in both Huckleberry Finn’s life and the book. His character allows the reader to see Huck’s increase of maturity throughout the story. Tom is the constant, his immaturity not changing from the beginning to the end of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while Huck is the changing variable. Tom’s head is in the clouds when we first meet his character. He imagines daring adventures of robbing Spanish merchants and rich Arabs, and we see Huck fantasizing over the same things as if they are reality. Tom’s justifies their actions constantly by saying â€Å"I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got to do,† (12). With Tom, everything has to be an adventure. Everything has to be a challenge to†¦show more content†¦Without him, we may not have seen Huck’s great character development throughout the story. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in Antebellum South. War has not come yet, but people have already begun to choose sides. Huckleberry Finn, still an innocent young boy, navigates his way throughout this turbulent time period. Because he, himself, is treated like a slave by his own father, Huck is able to sympathize with the slaves. He thinks of Jim as a friend, not his property. Huck is the protagonist of the story for this reason, representing the North in the civil war that would begin not long after the story ends. Huck’s encounters with various Southern men, women, and families all represent the South in the war, but it is Tom’s uncle, Silas Phelps, that represents the South the most. Physically locking Jim up with chains, Phelps shows the brutality towards the slaves and how they are treated as property in the South. Huck and Tom fight against his uncle by helping Jim escape, just as the North does for slaves in the South at the time. Mark Twain’s writing style contributes greatly to the book. If we weren’t hearing from Huckleberry Finn himself, the story would be completely different. Twain uses accents, slang words, and spelling mistakes to truly portray Huck as a real person. Because of this, people can relate to Twain’s characters in a way