Mark Twain wrote two novels about two boys who love adventure and the great outdoors. Though Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn share common interests, their stories have some major differences between them. In, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Huck has to run away from life for freedom from his father and civilization. Whereas in, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, Tom must get used to living a life with his aunt and become a gentleman. Tom Sawyer lives more of a carefree life, while Huckleberry Finn lives a much more dark and daring one. As Tom Sawyer’s story develops, the reader learns that Tom is a troublemaker, but even after given a punishment, he is off again, getting into more trouble. For Tom, it’s all about the adventure. If the adventure
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This island is where Huck starts his journey. He stayed there for awhile with a runaway slave named Jim. Huck then goes to town to find out what has been going on while he has been away. A woman who had just moved there in the last week tells him about his father and how he was trying to win Huck’s money but keeps getting thrown in jail for drinking. Now that Huck is disguised as a girl so that no one would recognize him, he finds out about his own story, “... so I knocked at the door, and made up my mind I wouldn’t forget I was a girl,”(Twain, 55). Since the woman didn’t know Huck, she told him that the town thought the runaway slave killed him. She says that she believes he is hiding out on the island and that her husband and a friend of his would go out at midnight to check it out. When Huck heard this he went back to the island as quick as he could and Jim and he got out of there. Another difference between Huck and Tom is that Huck is very strategic with his planning and makes sure everything connects with everything, while Tom makes plans as he goes along. For example, when Huck is trying to escape from his father, he tried to connect one thing to the next, “Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the ax good, and stuck in on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner,” (Twain 33). As for when Tom and Huck were trying to help Jim escape, Tom kept changing the
This island is where Huck starts his journey. He stayed there for awhile with a runaway slave named Jim. Huck then goes to town to find out what has been going on while he has been away. A woman who had just moved there in the last week tells him about his father and how he was trying to win Huck’s money but keeps getting thrown in jail for drinking. Now that Huck is disguised as a girl so that no one would recognize him, he finds out about his own story, “... so I knocked at the door, and made up my mind I wouldn’t forget I was a girl,”(Twain, 55). Since the woman didn’t know Huck, she told him that the town thought the runaway slave killed him. She says that she believes he is hiding out on the island and that her husband and a friend of his would go out at midnight to check it out. When Huck heard this he went back to the island as quick as he could and Jim and he got out of there. Another difference between Huck and Tom is that Huck is very strategic with his planning and makes sure everything connects with everything, while Tom makes plans as he goes along. For example, when Huck is trying to escape from his father, he tried to connect one thing to the next, “Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the ax good, and stuck in on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner,” (Twain 33). As for when Tom and Huck were trying to help Jim escape, Tom kept changing the