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Tom Sawyer's Role in Huckleberry Finn
Title: Tom Sawyer's Role in Huckleberry Finn
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 728 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tom Sawyer's Role in Huckleberry Finn
In his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses specific
incidents and both main and secondary characters to develop themes and comment on
Romanticism and society at the time. Tom Sawyer, though he is a secondary character,
plays an influential role in Twain’s criticism, satire, and farce of Romanticism and
society.
Tom’s romantic qualities and tendencies are in sharp contrast with the logical and
sensible characteristics of Huck. Tom takes control …showed first 75 words of 728 total…
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criticism of romanticism. Because of Tom’s reliance on his adventure novels to direct
situations as he deems “the right way”, Tom also summarizes civilization’s reliance on
tradition and existing laws that have been recorded, despite their lack of humanity and
compassion. By including Tom Sawyer, Twain was able to express his commentaries of
Romanticism and society while also adding a humor that is evident only in the infamous
Tom Sawyer.
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