Compare and Contrast Huck and Tom

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story based around the friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. It tells of the various backgrounds and cultures of "Tom and Huck" and how their ignorant beliefs affect their everyday actions and dealings with others. Though Tom is portrayed to be more knowledgeable than Huck in the sense that his friends look up to him, Huck proves to be intelligent, and ironically more mature than Tom because he shows a great deal of growth as he questions the society's beliefs and values.
Tom is depicted in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a very adventuresome and foolhardy individual who gets caught up in his ignorance by trying to blend fiction with reality.…