The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences On Huckleberry Finn

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many rules in his life,
finds the demands the women place upon him constraining and the life with
them lonely. As a result, soon after he first moves in with them, he runs
away. He soon comes back, but, even though he becomes somewhat comfortable
with his new life as the months go by, Huck never really enjoys the life of
manners, religion, and education that the Widow and her sister impose upon
him.
Huck believes he will find some freedom with Tom Sawyer. Tom
is a boy of Huck's age who promises Huck and other boys of the town a life
of adventure. Huck is eager to join Tom Sawyer's Gang because he feels
that doing so will allow him to escape the somewhat boring life he leads
with the Widow Douglas. Unfortunately, such an escape does not occur. Tom
Sawyer promises much--robbing stages, murdering and ransoming people,
kidnaping beautiful women--but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out
too late that Tom's adventures are imaginary: that raiding a caravan ...

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