Tom And Huck example essay topic

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The adventures of huck le berry Finn is a very good book. The main character is of course Huck Finn. The book Starts of with Huckleberry finn in the town of st. petersburg. Huck is adopted by the widow douglas because his father Pap is never around and always abuses him. Huck shows that he finds religion very stupid and that he doesn't understand why anybody would pray at all. Miss watson has a black slave named jim who is a very kind hearted black man.

You first see jim in the novel when huck tries too sneak out of the Widow douglas's house to meet with Tom. Jim eventually falls asleep and tom puts his hat on the branch above his head. When Jim wakes up, he looks around and finds his hat on the tree branch and establishes that he was cursed by a witch. Tom and Huck go to their gang meeting place where the rest of the members are already formed up.

Tom gives he gang oath and says he got most of the information from pirates books. They then decided if huck can join the gang, because he doesn't have any family members they can kill if he rats out on the gang. Huck gives up miss Watson and the gang agrees to kill he if Huck tells any of the gangs secrets. They then discuss that there main job is to steal and kill, but only kill the men. They must treat the women with the best manners.

Also, tom wants to hold some of the women for ransom because he heard thats what they do in pirates books.