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Huckleberry Finn 5 - College Essay

Huckleberry Finn 5

Huckleberry Finn, the central figure of the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is compared and contrasted greatly to Tom Sawyer who was the main character in another one of Mark Twain’s well written novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The events of Tom Sawyer happen before those of Huck Finn. The story of Tom Sawyer deals with the misadventures, really, of several children in the little Missouri village of St. Petersburg, about thirty years before the Civil War. The story takes place, that is, sometime during the 1830s. In contrast to the story of Huck Finn's which was a series of short adventures that took place on a raft down the Mississippi river.
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have a great deal of faith in things he reads or hears. He must experiment to find out what is true and what isn't.
In general then, Huck's attitude seems to be that if you let other people alone, they won't come around disturbing your peace and quiet. There doesn't seem to be any percentage in stirring up trouble by getting people all excited. Things won't be changed. An illustration of this is supplied by Dr. Robinson's warning to the Wilks girls that the king and duke are frauds. In spite of this reasonable man's warning, the girls trust the king and duke until the truth becomes painfully obvious to them. They could have spared themselves a great deal of sorrow if they had listened to the voice of reason.
This tells us that Huck enjoys peace and contentment, that he probably has too little of it in his life, and goes to the mighty, sliding river to escape from the harassment of the widow and her sister and the cruelty of his pap.
Huck becomes more mature, more humane, more ...

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