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Huck And Tom Sawyer Relationship

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Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is about an imaginative boy’s many adventures in his youth named Tom. On his many adventures, he developed a good relationship with another boy named Huckleberry Finn. Huck is the boy every boy envies, but all the parents hate. They both have differences, but their similarities allowed them to have this strong bond. In Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huck have a good relationship because they both have bravery and courage, a belief in superstition, and a love for adventure. In Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huck have a good relationship because they both have bravery and courage. They have first shown bravery and courage when they snuck out to go to the cemetery, even though they believe there would be ghosts and devils. If they never went to the cemetery and made the oath to never speak of the murder, their …show more content…

They first showed a belief in superstition in their first conversation about how to remove warts by using spunk water, or going to a spunk-water stump and sticking their hand inside while saying an incantation. Another method to remove warts they believe in was to go to a graveyard at midnight, and throw a dead cat at the devil that appears. One of Tom’s superstitions is the rattlesnake rattle bracelet he wears to protect him from cramps. When they both went treasure hunting, they believed that the reason they didn’t find anything was because Friday was an unlucky day. They also thought that a witch was using her magic so they couldn’t find any treasure. When they were in the cave where Injun Joe died, Huck said, “Injun Joe’s ghost is round about there, certain” (173), which showed that he believes the ghosts of dead people. Their belief in superstition allowed them to interact with each other in the first place, and give them a

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