The first notable character that Mark Twain uses is Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn’s childhood friend. Tom Sawyer lives his life according to the adventures that he reads about in books in order to make his own life an adventure. He will even go out of his way to make this happen. This is prominent when Huckleberry Finn asks Tom to help him free Jim from the Phelps family. When he is devising a plan to free Jim, Tom states, “…this whole thing is just as easy and awkward as it can be. And so it makes it rotten difficult to get up a difficult plan. There ain’t no watchman to be drugged- now there ought to be a watchman” (Twain 213). He is upset by the lack of risk in this situation, so he adds more detail to Jim’s escape for excitement and adventure.
