Huck Finn Character Analysis

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I think Tom is the antagonist in the story. Yes, Tom and Huck are best friends and they aren’t fighting against each other, but emotionally I think they are. Huck is Tom’s foil and they are the exact opposite characters. Even though they aren’t physically against each other mentally they are. Huck is the character that had to grow up early because if he wanted to be free he had to run away and that means you make your own decisions so he needed to grow up to survive. “I reckoned he believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for me I think different. It had all the marks of a Sunday-school,” (Twain, 24). This quote shows the difference between the two. Huck doesn’t follow rules or religion. He follows what he thinks is right and he decides