Practical Huck

Huck is very practical in many ways. If he thinks something makes no sense, he won't do it. If an idea does make sense to him, he will find a way to have complete control over it. One way or another he's going to have his way, at least that's what it seems like to me. Huck wants to maintain his independant ways. He's not very imaginative and doesn't play games. It's like 'Survival of the Fittest.' Huck is living to survive practically and convienently, not luxuriously. Huck lives with the Widow Douglas, and he was to become "sivilized." Huck couldn't stand the, I would say primpy clothes or preppy manners, so he dressed in his old rags and ran away. (Tom got him to come back home by telling him he could join his band of robbers. This right here tells you Tom is adventuresome.) Huck seems to think that if one person is doing something, like smoking in this case, he should be able to do the same as well. It's almost like he believes everyone should have fair and equal rights no matter the age, color, or background. For instance, the widow smoked yet told Huck that it is a very "mean practice and wasn't clean." The widow was being a hypocrite. It's practical for Huck to be doing the same as others.Huck was bored with school after an hour or so, being dull and unreasonable to him. He was always told to behave like a gentleman: use proper manners, dress handsome, use proper language, and be a good boy. His life with the widow was luxurious in a sense because of his fancy clothes, being able to have an education, and from what I've been reading, his huge, beautiful house. However, just because it's luxurious doesn't mean it's a good life. Huck was tired of rules and the constant nagging from widow Douglas and Miss. Watson. He wanted to be in control of his life because he believed his ways of life were more sensible. Huck can be described as a "do-it-myself-and-am-in-charge-of-my-life" kind of young boy. Tom is more adventuresome because of his free-spirit. He started a band of robbers with his friends. He had everybody take oaths and keep the secret of this club. All of his ideas came from books he had read. They were going to rob and murder people. Tom had the imaginaition of "stopping stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money." Tom came up with a whole plan to complete his mission. It hasn't gone through yet, and it probably won't, but I don't know because I haven't finished the book.To sum it all up, Tom and Huck are two very different individuals but are best friends. Whose not to say opposites attract?
I also want to add on that Huck comes from a lower white class society. Huck has some education and religion but not in the ways Tom Sawyer has. He has a different sense of fairness and logic just because of his schooling and that lack of fatherly bond. Huck likes to create his own rules but not because he's trying to rebell. It's all that he knows.
I have read Tom Sawyer. He was raised fairly well with a family. Huck is his best friend. His beliefs come from adults around him and his fairytale books.
(I hope I completed this blog correctly because I'm not entirely sure. Nobody else has posted yet. Oh my, and this must be why people call me an overachiever.)