Huck vs. Tom

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, twain shows a distinct difference between two of the main characters: Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer, throughout the novel, uses rules and what is "always done in the books" to control how he and Huck do things. On the other hand, Huck goes for the simple things that help him and comes the easiest to him when planning things out. In the beginning of the …

…shovel. In conclusion, Twain uses the relationship between the boys to bring out the differences between society and their romanticist ideas and Twain's, or Huck's, realist ideas. Which in all of these instances turned out to be the better choice of the two. Twain makes many other comments towards these romanticist ideas through out the novel, but they seem to be brought out the most through the relationship between Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.