Author's Note- This is my final essay on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
If you have ever read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you probably believe that Tom is a nice kid and Huckleberry Finn is some weird son of a drunkard. If you can relate to this statement, then you should read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You would find out that the previous statement is untrue.
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom seems to be kind person with lots of friends, and who never gets into trouble. While Huck is an outcast. He is the son of a drunkard and he lives on the streets. Also he wears ragged clothes and doesn't go to school or church. He has no apparent home and most people don't seem to like him at all.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is this nice kid who many people can relate to. A key factor to this is the book is written Huck's point of view. I like how Mark Twain uses Huck to narrate the book. When I read about all the things he goes through, Huck seems to be someone that I might want as a friend.
On the other hand, Tom is kind of jerk in my opinion. He lets Huck and Jim go through many time consuming and corny operations just so he could have an adventure. Later in the book, Huck and Jim find out that this was all a waste of time because, to their surprise, Jim was already set free.
This book is mostly romance, even though some of the events are somewhat tragic or ironic. It is more realistic than its prequel and slightly less romantic. This book has continuous symbolism with the Mississippi River. It symbolizes the flowing of his Huck's life.
Therefore the slight change in the mode changes the characters. Both Huck and Tom are almost different people in the different books. This proves that literary analysis is a key component when reading any form of literature.
