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    best friend‚ Tom Sawyer‚ represents imagination. In a Mississippi River community Twain makes sure that Tom and Huck differ so the strict separation of imagination and reality is identified. Huck Finn takes ideas and theories of his own and imagines what Tom would do before he acts. Tom’s ideas and aspirations prove he has quite an imagination. During pre-Civil War time Twain has Huck‚ Tom and Jim‚ a run away slave‚ go on a pilgrimage together. For Jim it is a pilgrimage to freedom. Tom goes from imagination

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    in this story. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts out with a brief description of the previous book‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both boys stole twelve thousand dollars in the previous book; each boy got six thousand a piece. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are both young boys growing up before the Civil War along the Mississippi. Both boys are mischievous but Tom is the one with all the plans‚ he reads a lot which gives him these ideas‚ which are fairly eccentric. Huck Finn does not live with

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    his old ways and focusing more on Tom Sawyer’s shenanigans rather than Huck’s growth. First‚ Huck Finn starts off as a follower who looks up to Tom Sawyer and wants to be just like him. For example‚ when learning about the “good” the “bad”

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story like no other. Huckleberry Finn story is mainly about limitation and liberation. What us “peoples” to believe about. Huck’s journey down the Mississippi River is represents the everyday American highway of endless possibilities about what is going to happen next. Mark Twain basically transforms a boy’s adventure tale into what people would say to be one of the world’s great books. Huckleberry Finn was one of the first novels to be written in‚ narrated

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    It is as if Mark Twain begins portraying Jim through Huck ’s observation rather than Tom ’s observation. As Huck increasingly considers Jim as a more and more complex person with ideas and the conscious mind‚ Jim is described to the reader as less of a person who is comic. Jim ’s deep human world is described in particular in his harrowing

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    writings‚ most notably‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. To begin‚ Mark Twain grew up during the latter two-thirds of the eighteenth century in a small town on the Mississippi River. This town is named Hannibal‚ Missouri which provides the basis for the setting in which the novel takes place. Hannibal Missouri is actually the primary influence Mark Twain used when he was composing the city‚ St. Petersburg‚ on the Mississippi River for his character‚ Tom Sawyer‚ to live in. Mark Twain

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    of how people become educated. One of the main characters Huck Finn learns more from traveling through the Mississippi. Huck finn gets a unconventional education by Jim‚ Tom‚ and pap. First of all Huck was educated by Jim in many ways. At one point Tom Sawyer was shot in the leg‚ and him stayed to help with Tom. Him says to Tom‚ “would he say dat? You bet he wouldn’t; well den‚ is Jim gwyne to say it? No sah. I doan budge a step out’n dis place dout a doctor; not if it’s forty year”(Mark Twain pg

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    escapes from slavery in order to reunite with his family. To me Jim is written to be perceived as an undermined person‚ but in actuality Jim is the reason for Huck taking the chances he did. A minor character that was quite fond of Huck Finn was Tom Sawyer. Tom is key to Huck having the passion and intuition that he does. There are many other characters in the novel such as Miss Watson‚ Huck’s father‚ miscellaneous river men‚ the King and Duke‚ and families of different locations from Huck’s journey

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    childhood adventuring and playing around. Adventures on the river gave Twain the influence for writing his novels‚ which were controversial‚ but also great. Growing up on the Mississippi River inspired Mark Twain to compose his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that were criticized for poking fun at society which made

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    Twain’s life influenced his work because he incorporated his mother‚ sister‚ brother‚ and friends as a base for his writing. He has written many well-known American classics such as those of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was born November 30‚ 1835 in Florida‚ Missouri. He was born to John Clemons and Jane Clemons. Twain grew up on the MS River‚ so he had many memories growing up as a child. These included swimming‚ fishing‚ playing pirates‚ and pulling a few

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