In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain depicts the transition from Romantic thinking to an age of Realism, through the duality of the novel's two youthful friends Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, although best friends, posses an entirely different outlook on life and demonstrate Twain's emergence as one of the greatest realistic thinkers of literary history. Through Huck Finn, Twain illustrates the realist and his analysis of the hardships …showed first 75 words of 742 total…

…showed last 75 words of 742 total…realistic outlook into the literary world and do away with the fictitious romantic movement. Twain feels strongly of the power in human reason over emotions that often create a inaccurate world that does not exist. Through the dualistic comparisons of the novels two main characters, Twain steers his audience away from romantic thinking, and through the narration of Huck, sheds light on the realism movement that he supported so strongly. <Tab/>