Similarities Between Huckleberry Finn And The Great Gatsby

“Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say” – Dr.phil Mccraw. In these three books, Catcher in the Rye, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and, The Great Gatsby all deal with men trying to find themselves and be who they are in society. Holden, Huck and Nick all live in a society where people are “phony’s”, “con artists” or very wealthy. They try and find themselves within their surroundings and do they best they can for the people around them.
In the catcher in the rye by J.D Salinger, Holden is searching for his identity and slowly throughout the book his personality and character develops. In the beginning Holden is seen as careless and also very intelligent in his own way. Holden attends Pencey, a private
As the book begins, Huck shows that he follows his friends especially Tom Sawyer. Tom starts up a “band of robbers” group and Huck immediately follows him and joins. Tom made them spell there name in blood to join and said that if any boy told their secrets their families were to be killed. Huck follows Tom and agrees with everything he has to say because he doesn’t know that what Tom is saying isn’t true and doesn’t have a voice of him own. Huck’s drunken dad soon kidnaps him and locks him in a cabin, but Huck escapes and makes it seem like he faked his death showing Huck is very intelligent. When Huck escapes he uses a raft he finds earlier and gets away to an island in which he finds his old friend Jim, one of Ms. Watson slaves who ran away. Huck is ecstatic to see Jim and they begin they adventure. As Huck and Jim begin to move down the river, everyone thinks Huck is dead while Jim is a runaway slave. They find con artist who say they are a “duke” and a “dauphin” but Huck knows they are pretending but goes along with it anyway. The con artist move place to place planning how to scheme money from people. As they come across a town in which a huge sum of money is given to a family as inheritance, the con artist see a opportunity right away. They pretend to be the “Wilks
Twain uses diction, tone and symbolic items to describe Huck’s experiences and how he comes to finding his identity in society. The diction in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is difficult to understand because he writes how the characters speak. He demonstrates Jim, the slave’s way of talking to show his lack of education. When Jim speaks he speaks with an accent and not proper English, he says “…Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn’ hear sumf’n” (pg.5). Showing Jim’s unfamiliarity of proper English, Huck also speaks in a different way showing how the time frame is set back in the day when people didn’t speak as we do now. Huck explains Jim’s movements by saying “so he sat down on the ground betwixt me and tom”. Huck uses ‘betwixt” instead of between showing the words used back then. The diction in this book gives readers the idea that this was actually real and how things were. The tone is very ironic because Huck is very serious and doesn’t realize that his actions actually help people in the end. Even though Tom knew Jim was a free slave the whole time he went along with the plan just for the thrill of it. When Tom finds out Jim was not set free he says “turn him loose! He aint no slave; he’s as free as any cretur that walks this earth!”(pg.289) meaning Jim was free. It shows that Huck had no clue in what was happening because of Tom. This book had