Tom Sawyer is a mischievous young man who undermines the authority of adults. Tom always wants to go on new adventures and explore new things. Tom played hookey and had a great time (Twain 3). Huckleberry Finn is the son of the town drunkard. Huck is a free spirit, he does what he wants and no one in town makes him do anything he doesn't want. Samuel Clemens writes about many experiences during Tom and Huck's adventures that were actually adventures from his real life. Tom Sawyer is the main character of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom is a very adventurous young man. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer too, but not from one individual: he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture (Twain 1). Throughout the book, Tom takes his friends on adventures that get them into a lot of trouble. Tom's friends include Huckleberry Finn, Huck's friend Joe Harper, and his romantic interest Becky Thatcher. Tom lives in St. Petersburg, Missouri, which is located along the Mississippi River. He lives with his aunt Polly (Sandock). Tom's half-brother Sid, cousin Mary, and Jim also live with him. Tom's younger brother (or rather half-brother), Sid, was already done with his part of the job (collecting the chips), because he was a quiet boy and had no adventurous or troublesome ways (Twain 3). Jim is Aunt Polly's young slave. Tom's father is never mentioned in the book. Nobody knows anything about Tom's father. Aunt Polly's deceased sister is Tom and Sid's mother. Tom is always trying to impress his girlfriend Becky. Tom eventually convinces Becky to get engaged at a young age (Gussow). Sometime after Becky discovers that Tom had been engaged before, h...... half of the newspaper ...... Erican literature. Ed. Jim Campo. 3rd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 17, 2014. Sloane, David E.E. “Huck Acts, an Escape from Civilization.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: American Comic Vision. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. 50-60. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. vol. 161. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 27, 2014.Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer with illustrations by Paul Geiger; afterword by Bernard DeVoto. Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1985. Print.Valkeakari, Tuire. "Huck, Twain, and the Freedman's Chains: Huckleberry Finn Today." Atlantis, magazine of the Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 28.2 (2006): 29+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. May 14 2014.