The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain is a novel about the adventures of a runaway slave whose name is Jim and a runaway boy whose name is Huck on a journey to freedom. Huck lies to help Jim and him escape to freedom while Tom Sawyer lies and makes up weird situations for fun. Huck and Jim travel up a river in search for the northern states which are the free states. The adventure basically revolves around Huck's and Jim's freedom.
             One of the greatest lies Huck tells is when he lies to the two white men who were looking for runaway slaves to cash in for money. Huck tells the two white men that family are on the raft and that they have smallpox. Huck makes up the lie so the men won't be suspicious and attempt to search the raft and find Jim. "Well, there's five niggers run off to-night up yonder, above the head of the bend. Is your man white or black? I didn't answer up prompt" (Twain 87). "Everybody goes away when I want them to help me tow the raft ashore, and I can't do it by myself. We are right down sorry for you, but we-well, hang it, we don't want the smallpox, you see" (Twain 87-88). Jim is very thankful that Huck did not tattle on him but Huck would not do that because Jim is the strength that he needs in order to keep going down the river.
             Tom is the Romanticist in the novel and he lives in the fantasy world. Tom acts as if he is stuck in an old fairy tale and everything has to be done like it was done years before. Most of the ideas that Tom Sawyer have like making all the boys take an oath to join the gang came from a book. "Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gain that was high-toned had it" (Twain 9). Tom came up with the idea of taking and holding people for rans
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