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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is often considered to be the sequel of another Twain work, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both tell the tale of young boys living in the small town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi River. Huck appears in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was written first, and Tom appears in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These boys are good friends and have many adventures together in both novels. …

…others will think of him and is more concerned with getting something do! ne the proper way than actually getting it done. Twain prefers the carefree and unique personality of Huck, as well as his views on slavery, and wants us to do the same. It is as Emerson states in his famous essay, Self-Reliance. “The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”