Opposites: The Relationship of Tom and Huck
             In Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the central characters Tom and Huck, may at first appear to be very similar if not the same person. When looking closer at the novel, Sawyer exaggerates their differences, which tend to be extremes. He singles out aspects of their education, each boy's imagination, and also they way they dealt with multiple situations in his sharp development of character persona. Aimed at life in the 19th century, Twain depicts two types of people in the 19th century: the by-the-book, impractical, glory seeking Tom Sawyer and the education despising, practical, and morally sound Huck Finn.
             Huckleberry Finn, the character for which the book is titled, is a boy both confused in search of who he really is yet while being guided by Miss Watson. Miss Watson is trying to get the boy his education, manners, and also at the same time is offering religious guidance as seen in chapter 1. In a scene around the coffee table in the living room, Miss Watson is lecturing on and on about Moses and attempts to teach Huck how to spell. Afterwards we catch him getting fidgety as Miss Watson scolds him for having his feet on the coffee table. All this education is looked down upon by his father, Pap Finn, and when we later find Huck bored out of his mind in the woods, he tells the reader exactly how he feels about school saying:
             It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. Two months or more run along... and I didn't ever see how I got to like it so well at the widows, where you had to...be forever bothering over a book...(The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, p 24)
             In saying this, we learn that Huck, even though can be trained to "tolerate" education, dislikes formal education.
             Tom Sawyer, on the other hand, has somewhat of an informal education. The reader finds out throug...