Cooper King 11/23 Friendship could be named one of the most important things on Earth. Taking just a couple seconds you could probably name significant things in your life. Some of the biggest discovery’s or inventions have come from a couple of people having ideas and combining them and becoming friends to create said invention or discovery. One huge historic friendship that sticks out to me is Lewis and Clark. Another genre of friendships could be a fictional friendship from a book, for example Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Then a friendship in modern life would be Chance The Rapper and Donald Glover. The reasons for friendship are to enjoy yourself, and tell them anything. Like venting and getting things off your …show more content…
For example from a historic friendship way back in time Lewis and Clark. Lewis was appointed by president at the time Jefferson to be his Secretary-aide. Then a couple years later Lewis was chosen as commander of expedition. Lewis then writes to ask William Clark to join him on the expedition and share command. Clark accepted, the expedition was to find a water route linking the Columbia and Missouri rivers. This water link would connect the Pacific Ocean with the Mississippi River system, thus giving the new western land access to port markets out of the Gulf of Mexico and to eastern cities along the Ohio River and its minor tributaries. No easy task for two men. At the start of the expedition Lewis just turned 30 and Clark was 34 making them two very young men. In temperament Lewis and Clark were opposites. Lewis was introverted, melancholic, and moody. Then Clark was extroverted, even-tempered and gregarious. Both men were just about opposites in every situation, but as the saying goes opposites attract. Lewis having a better education possessed a philosophical, romantic, and speculative mind. Clark had a pragmatic mold, was more of a practical man of action. Each supplied vital …show more content…
In the book Tom Sawyer is great friends with Huckleberry fin. Huck admires Tom because they're so different. Sure, Tom has a stable home and a good upbringing but he's different from Huck in other ways. Where Tom is imaginative, Huck is practical. Where Tom always has his nose in a book, Huck runs away to the river or woods when he needs to escape. Where Tom is basically a good-hearted kid who's oblivious to moral issues, Huck is a boy on the verge of becoming a man by grappling with some really important questions. Examples would be the famous part in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom tricks a kid into painting the white fence for him saying its fun. Making his life and chores easier. Showing that Tom is smart and quick witted. Huck wishes he could come up with a story as good as Tom's. Tom would have crazy interesting stories that everyone in the town would want to hear including the kids. While Huck had decent ones but would never compare to Tom making him a bit jealous. Huck also wished he had such good plans like Tom always seemed to have. I think the reason Huck was as inclined or gifted as Tom in these situations was because he wished or wanted the talent without putting in the work necessary to do so. What made then such good literary friends was the fact they like Lewis and Clark were opposites for the most part. Huckleberry and Tom were also younger
When Tom said he “wanted to resk it” and “tie Jim to the tree for fun,” Huck disliked the idea of disturbing Jim after getting away unnoticed, proving that Tom is more daring than Huck. When everyone in Tom Sawyer 's Gang questioned the purpose behind their plans to rob and murder, Tom replied that “it 's in the books...”, implying that Tom has read multiple books as opposed to Huck who is barely literate. Twain manipulates their characters so that Tom is the more bold, outgoing, and socially-rounded when compared to Huck. However, Twain does not outline all the differences between Tom and Huck for naught. They help highlight special characteristics about Huck that show his character 's positive contribution to the novel. Such characteristics include his kindness and sense of
Huckleberry Finn has tremendous difficulty transitioning from an easily influenced person to an independent one. He begins as one of many faithful followers to Tom Sawyer, willing to trail behind him into any dangerous situations because Tom seems more self-confident than he ever allows himself to be. "Everybody was willing" (Twain 9) to Tom's declaration, "we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's gang" (Twain 9) where their business is "Nothing only [sic] robbery and murder" (Twain 10). Tom is so self-assured that Huck, lacking confidence in himself to make his own decisions without leadership or outside assistance, is restricted from locating his level of confidence while around his dictatorial best friend. Another dominant source of influence in Huck's life is his father, whose relationship with his son is comparable to that of a lord to a slave. Pap tries to cheat Huck out of his money, claiming "all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising [Huck]" (Twain 26), so he can go into a drunken stupor and not be concerned about reality. To vent his anger for failed attempts, he punishes his own son through kidnapping, imprison...
...uckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are essentially polar opposites. Their opinions of civilization and rules, imagination, and control are so different that the two function as perfect foils of one another. When Mark Twain wrote Huck Finn he wanted a story that would make people take a closer look at what society was doing to a younger generation. The characters of Tom and Huck were carried over from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a much lighter, funnier, novel, but still worked to make his point. Twain wanted to show that people raised to be good citizens like Tom were growing up to be egotistical, cruel, brats, and that someone like Huck, who just wanted to help, has been taught that doing so will send him to hell. Between the two characters, it is easy to see which boy Mark Twain wants people to be more like, and his foil of Huck with Tom makes this even more apparent.
First, Tom is an extremely mischievous boy, at least in the first part of the book He sneaks things and tricks people in the book. This makes Tom a boy that disobeys and misbehaves, for a good chunk of the book. Tom also is jealous of Huck’s life. Throughout the first part of the book, Tom makes it clear that he wants to be like Huck who doesn’t go to school, and gets to live a free and non proper life. As you can see, Tom doesn’t wants to not have to go to school or have to be proper.” In a word, everything that goes to make life precious that boy [Huck Finn] had. So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.” This shows the Tom was jealous of Huck’s life. In addition to all this, Tom is cunning and the not so perfect son living with his aunt. Tom has a brother Sid who is a goody two shoes, while Tom is the complete opposite. In the aunt’s eyes, Sid is the perfect one, while Tom is not, but deep in the Aunt’s heart, she feels bad for Tom. Tom also meets Becky, a girl who Tom is deeply attracted to, “A lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes."This shows how Tom sees her and shows his affection for Becky.”Tom stood a moment, to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment the surprise, the gratitude, the
In “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, written by Mark Twain, a teenager named Huckleberry Finn discovers himself on an extensive runaway excursion from his father down the Mississippi River helping him find morality and individualistic responsibilities. As the novel progresses, the reader sees a large contrast between the two main characters, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Romantic Tom and Realistic Huck are friends down this road of never-ending adventure. Huck and Tom both vary and differentiate greatly through their individual capacity of cerebral performance, respond to society and the life they’re surrounded by, and their different reactions to slavery around them, especially Jim.
“In this novel, Twain uses Huck as a relatively naïve narrator to make ironic observations about Southern culture and human nature in general” (“Mark Twain” Novels 1:16). Twain uses Huck as the first-person narrator in his novel. Twain presents his topics using “the colloquial, philosophical, self-deprecating, stubbornly boyish, provincial, sensitive, but always tough and realistic voice of Huckleberry Finn” (Bloom 10). Adults and children see things from a different perspective, and Huck is definitely believable as a young boy. Children are easily believed by others, and Twain appears to know this better than most. Through Huck’s words and narrative, the reader is pulled into Huck’s feelings. Huck’s conflicts become the reader’s conflicts, and Huck’s way of solving his conflicts is not only believable but is agreeable to the reader as well. Wit...
When Huck, the Duke, and Dauphin were at the Wilk’s house, Huck said “ this is another one that I’m letting him rob her of her money… I felt so ornery and low down and mean.” (Twain 206) Huck regretted letting the Duke and Dauphin scam people and he noticed how wrong it was. His conscience grew and he starts to show the morals that he has never shown. Also whenever Tom Sawyer told Huck that the Duke and the Dauphin had been tarred and feathered, Huck said “ It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be cruel to one another.” (Twain 269) Huck sees the wrong in what people do and not a lot of kids his age think about the world like he does, and that’s a big step in him growing up.
It is through these friendships that drive humans to improve themselves in mind, body, and soul. Without cultivating this bond of friendship humanity will fall apart.
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Huckleberry Finn a homeless, uneducated boy is described as ¨the juvenile pariah of the village.¨ Huck is ¨hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town.¨ Children are forbidden to associate with Huck. All of the people in the town dread Huck but they don't know what he's really like. Only two little boys in the town know the real Huck. There names are Tom Sawyer and Joe Harper. They both know that Huck is a caring person and not a bad nuisance. Huck´s behavior proves that, despite having no supportive family, he is a good person with admirable traits.
The similarities and differences between Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are two novels that focus on the lives of two different young men living in the same town. Both young men are the main characters of each novel. Tom’s character was based much on the life of the author Mark Twain. Both lost their mother at a young age and both were too smart for their own good. The novels are similar and different in many ways. One way that they are similar are the titles. Both titles give us an idea that the book is about two different boy’s adventure. Another way is their faith both boys reject religion. Huck reason is that when he prayed for what he wanted, he didn’t get anything so he thinks Christian faith and praying is pointless. Both boys personalities are very different practically opposites. Tom is a very unpredictable, uncooperative, and lazy child with a carefree attitude who gets a thrill out of fighting and playing. He is very intelligent for his age even though he smoked. He’s a mischievous child who lives by the quote “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do ” if there’s something wrong to be done he’s going to be doing it. Deep down inside is a boy who has a very low self esteem and trys to hide it. Tom feels unloved even though he has a family and whenever he feels unloved he imagines his own funeral and questions his existence. Probably that’s the reason why he a troubled child he doesn’t feel that he’s living for any good reason, so he might as well be bad.
Friends are people one can trust. They are there to provide encouragement and to be ones support system. The main benefit of friendship is having people to whom one can vent to, good or bad. This builds trust between two individuals. When this trust is built deep into a relationship, friends can support one another when one is feeling down.
Friendship is the most wonderful relationship that anyone can have. Ideally a friend is a person who offers love and respect and will never leave or betray us. Friends can tell harsh truths when they must be told. There are four different types of friends: True friends, Convenient friends, Special interest friends, and historical friends. To have friendship is to have comfort. In times of crisis and depression, a friend is there to calm us and to help lift up our spirits.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” has been a strong factor in the formation of alliances through ought the ages. Influential and charismatic leaders have conquered great empires and scored promotions with help from friends, all of which might not be possible alone. On the other hand, friendship does not only benefit our professional lives, but assists in emotional development beginning as early on as childhood. “We evolved to make friends and tell them things” (Akst 88). Friendships provide children with more than just fun playmates. While interacting with friends, children learn many social skills, like how to communicate and cooperate. It is evident in our history books as well as everyday life how one is effected by the benefits, or lack
Friendship is one of the most important things you can get out of life. It’s something that everyone has to have because without it, we would all go insane. Just think if no one talked to each other and we never made friends, this world would be a ticking time bomb. Studies say humans need friendships and love to survive. So friendship is a big part of your life.
Although it might not be evident to himself, Huck causes the reader to see that "sivilization", in their treatment of blacks especially, is not civilized at all. Every person Huck and Jim come across seems to just be following someone else blindly, as the whole country were some sort of mob. In the last few chapters, Tom Sawyer is re-introduced and the reader is left to examine how different environments: "sivilization" and nature (the river), have affected the children's growth. It is distinctly evident that Huck has turned out to be the one with a clear and intelligent mind, and Tom, although he can regurgitate worthless facts about Louis XVI and Henry VIII, shows no real sign of maturity. "The first time I catched up to Tom, private, I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?- what it was he planned to do if the evasion worked out all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? And he said, what he had planned in his head, from the start, if we got Jim out, all safe, was for us to run him down the river, on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth" (p.360). Huck has always thought of Tom as more intelligent than himself, but he cannot understand how Tom could toy with Jim's life in such a way. For much time, Huck is! without the river and it is though his mind clouds; he follows along with Tom playing a sick game until the end when he is once again threatened with being "sivilized".