What Are The Similarities Between Mark Twain And The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Stories have driven imagination for centuries, allowing writers to express themselves freely with the intention of informing and reaching out to the readers; these exceptional stories have become known as literature. Two exceptional literary pieces are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), by Mark Twain. A close examination of these novels portrays how the author changed his tone of writing from the first written novel, to the second, to change the reason for his pieces. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer demonstrates how Mark Twain wrote it with a gentle tone and the intention of telling a tale about young boys growing up; meanwhile, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written with a more aggressive

The motif in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is mostly crime because the games the boys prefer to play revolve around criminal offenses giving them the chance to explore acts of bravery and boldness. As the novel begins, the boys start by playing minor childhood games but as the novel progresses, they get themselves into a whole new range of danger and crimes that are considered to be capital offenses like the murder of Dr. Robinson. The boys want to be robbers, pirates, and murderers even though they feel bad when they actually commit the small crime of stealing bacon and ham, “it seemed to them, in the end, that there was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only ‘hooking,’ while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing — and there was a command against that in the Bible” (147). Also, in the two scenes in which Tom plays Robin Hood in stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is both a criminal and a hero thing to do. These acts and remorse of stealing, shows how Tom associates crime with defending proper values and even going against the norms of society. Meanwhile, in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the motif used is mostly Huck’s childhood. Over the course of the novel, Huck’s youth is very important in his social education because only a child is actually open minded enough to undergo the kind of development that Huck does. The white community usually influences their kids into believing that niggers are bad and are supposed to be used as slaves but as the novel progresses the readers learn that Huck is indeed unlike any other kid and ironically often knows better than the adults he is surrounded by. Even though he lacks the guidance that a proper family and community should have offered him throughout his childhood,