Compare and contrast Tom and Huck. Consider why Twain uses Tom in the beginning and the end of the novel. "Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. So I was satisfied, and said we would waltz in on it" (232). Mark Twain's The …
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…and mind of Mark Twain. Twain's characters capture the imagination of the reader, just like Tom's plans. Huck and Tom, the immortal American symbols of adventure and mayhem, are contrasted to from a contrast between Realism and Romanticism, as well as, Society and Freedom. As Huck says, "Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style" (232). Tom provided the style, Huck the logic.