Most children delight in the idea of adventure and the thrill that comes with it. Many kids take that thirst for excitement too far, as displayed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn, more commonly known by the name of Huck, is a child who takes his shot into adventure by both faking his death and running away from his abusive father. On his journey he groups together with Jim, a runaway slave, and eventually with the unaffiliated scammers known by the titles of “King” and “Duke”.
However, before his titular adventures, Huck was a child who found joy in going on fake exploits with his friends. Although, Huck, while he did enjoy playing pretend, preferred things that fit in with his concept of logic rather than what occurred in Tom’s novels. Huck commonly showed doubt of Tom’s more dubious tales, telling him that the ‘A-rab’ camp they were ‘invading’ was truly a Sunday School picnic. Huck has already begun to grow out of the venturesome ideas of boyhood, but he suspects that Tom truly believes his own lies, as shown when “[he] judged all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies. [He] reckoned [Tom] believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for [himself, he thinks] different” (Twain 13). Huck has an uncanny ability to understand the truth when faced with lies and exaggerations, whether they are small such as Tom’s or grandiose like the supposed Duke and the supposed Dauphin’s. While currently on the topic of the Duke and Dauphin, it must be known that the two serve as foils to Tom and Huck, and are meant to exhibit what occurs when adventure and lying moves too far. The Duke and Dauphin, who are both professional con men, bring Huck and Jim into more than a few fair shares of scams, and one sticks out among all the others: the scam involving the Wilkes family. Huck questions why he’s following them still after they take on the guise of the English brothers of Peter Wilkes in order to obtain the late, rich man’s inheritance. Huck is disgusted when “the king [gets up] and comes forward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full …show more content…
The task, though exceedingly simple, becomes absurd when Tom adds layer upon layer of difficulty to it, due to viewing it “as mild as goosemilk” (208). This sheds more light onto Tom’s character, as it shows how Tom adores adventure, even when it makes things overly complicated. Tom’s reading material led him to believe that for anything to be truly exciting, there had to be difficulties to it. Because of this, Tom wants to do things like dig a hole under the shed when he could, easily, take the key. Another example of this is when Tom wished to saw through Jim’s leg to free him of a chain, although he knew it was completely unnecessary considering how the bedpost he was chained to was easy to lift. Tom even writes letters to the Phelps family, warning them of what will occur, to add a danger to the mission and make it more of a tale found in a novel than what was probable. However, he does get what he wanted later, when during the actual escapade, Tom gets shot in the leg and Jim has to go back to help save
However, before his titular adventures, Huck was a child who found joy in going on fake exploits with his friends. Although, Huck, while he did enjoy playing pretend, preferred things that fit in with his concept of logic rather than what occurred in Tom’s novels. Huck commonly showed doubt of Tom’s more dubious tales, telling him that the ‘A-rab’ camp they were ‘invading’ was truly a Sunday School picnic. Huck has already begun to grow out of the venturesome ideas of boyhood, but he suspects that Tom truly believes his own lies, as shown when “[he] judged all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies. [He] reckoned [Tom] believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for [himself, he thinks] different” (Twain 13). Huck has an uncanny ability to understand the truth when faced with lies and exaggerations, whether they are small such as Tom’s or grandiose like the supposed Duke and the supposed Dauphin’s. While currently on the topic of the Duke and Dauphin, it must be known that the two serve as foils to Tom and Huck, and are meant to exhibit what occurs when adventure and lying moves too far. The Duke and Dauphin, who are both professional con men, bring Huck and Jim into more than a few fair shares of scams, and one sticks out among all the others: the scam involving the Wilkes family. Huck questions why he’s following them still after they take on the guise of the English brothers of Peter Wilkes in order to obtain the late, rich man’s inheritance. Huck is disgusted when “the king [gets up] and comes forward a little, and works himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full …show more content…
The task, though exceedingly simple, becomes absurd when Tom adds layer upon layer of difficulty to it, due to viewing it “as mild as goosemilk” (208). This sheds more light onto Tom’s character, as it shows how Tom adores adventure, even when it makes things overly complicated. Tom’s reading material led him to believe that for anything to be truly exciting, there had to be difficulties to it. Because of this, Tom wants to do things like dig a hole under the shed when he could, easily, take the key. Another example of this is when Tom wished to saw through Jim’s leg to free him of a chain, although he knew it was completely unnecessary considering how the bedpost he was chained to was easy to lift. Tom even writes letters to the Phelps family, warning them of what will occur, to add a danger to the mission and make it more of a tale found in a novel than what was probable. However, he does get what he wanted later, when during the actual escapade, Tom gets shot in the leg and Jim has to go back to help save