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 …showed first 75 words of 1103 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1103 total…fiction and reality while Huck the more submissive one, is a little more thoughtful but rebellious. He begins to mature as he reacts to the people and society around him. His thoughtfulness seems to be the defining trait for growth and discipline when compared to Tom and his relationship with Jim eventually begins to change his ignorant views of the society. Huck, I feel is evidently then depicted as the more mature of the two.