An overall perspective of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twains "The Adventures of Huckleberry" is a book consisting of the perspective of a small town life through the eyes of Huck, a rough and rustic child with a father that is barely there, that is if he is not drunk, Tom Sawyer as he friend, and the world as his home. You can see the viewpoint of how Huck lives compared to his friend Tom is quite vast and very much different. Tom, being raised in a good home and a safe environment, which allowed his imagination to take off into the wildest of places. Huck on the other hand, had been put straight into the rough realization that he had to provide for himself, by himself, as a means of pure survival. other things that led him to have a much more refined mind would be because of his mother dying at a young age, he did not have anyone to nurture or to provide some of the simple pleasures of life. His father, a drunk, only came around to beat Huck, also giving him the idea on how people could be, giving him a huge advantage at a young age on how to be more realistic in the world for means of survival.