The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Throughout the beginning chapters, the reader is introduced to Huck and slowly begins to learn more about his life and personality. Huck's comparison to his friends shows how much more he reads into things and that he is more connected to reality than other children his age. When Tom Sawyer begins to try and convince the gang about genies in lamps, A-Rabs, and magical camels and elephants, Huck is far less convinced than Tom and other member of the gang and even concludes that he does not believe it at all and it is simply something made up by Tom Sawyer. Huck is also not convinced that he and the gang he is involved with will ever rob or murder anyone, which is also something Tom Sawyer tries to make the gang believe will happen. This shows the reader that Tom has a much more mature outlook on life and will possibly help him make better decisions further into the book, which is demonstrated is the passage that Huck is trapped inside pap's cabin and makes the decision to find a way out. Huck's way of thinking and analyzing situations is beneficial to him because he does not let make believe ideas and concepts blur his vision of reality or lead him in the wrong direction.