Character analysis of the main characters in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
This paper takes a look at the main characters, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, in Mark Twain’s classic novel. The paper looks at their backgrounds and how their different backgrounds helped mold the adults that they become. It describes adventures and events in the book that help illustrate the different nature of each character.
“Justin Kaplan writes that Mark Twain wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’as a man desperately needing to resolve his own bewilderment about conscience and the restraints and freedoms of the community (Kaplan 227). Kaplan also quotes Twain as saying, The conscience that unerring monitor/*can be trained to approve any wild thing you want it to approve if you begin its education early and stick with it (Twain qtd. in Kaplan 228). Kaplan observes that the conscience may not necessarily be the voice of God, but only the voice of the people (Kaplan 228). The understanding is that if man can reject the voice of the people, freedom from the tyranny of conscience (228) could be discovered. It is from this premise that we can guess the fate of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer ten years after their adventures.”