Huckleberry Finn And Tom Sawyer

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Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

In Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Huck is character that undergoes serious initiation to the real world. Though Huck’s and Tom’s character ideas may pertain to different locations on the spectrum, Tom’s crazy ideas and rules help to shape Huck’s own development. Huck learns more about reality traveling with Jim than he could have received through an education.
As the novel begins Huck is a lower-class, uneducated boy. Huck is a realist. He lives his life accepting the way things are does not search for an outrageous reason for the way things are. Being a realist allows Huck to achieve new levels of intelligence and perceive different outlooks on his environment.
The character of Tom Sawyer is from the middle class and Tom has a proper upbringing. Tom’s education has led him to be a romantic character; he enjoys melding his adventures with other’s realities. Tom does in fact believe that he does have superiority and he does this when speaking in a higher tongue around Jim and Huck.
The protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is Huck and his foil is Tom Sawyer. Huck is struggling with the prejudice towards blacks while Tom is a representative of the worst of Southern values. Huck has a moral obligation to help Jim while Tom is never bothered by moral dilemmas and uses Jim to feed his own Romantic adventure.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn represent two diverse ideas from the South. While Tom is “educated” personifying the accepted social values Huck, not being well knowledgeable, did not have the advantages of Tom and yet he turned out to be the better person. “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”(Twain, 369)...