Twain, born Samuel Longhorn Clemens, held an eclectic mix of jobs, and, wrote a great deal about his experiences and his

boyhood. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (AOTS) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AOHF) are a pair of novels by

Twain that: present the new and radical changes in the early 1800s in contrast to the old fashioned ways; mirror Twain's life

as a young boy growing up in a one-horse town on the Mississippi River; and, give the reader an idea of his view that the

loss of innocence signals the coming of age.

Twain was born in 1835 and Tom Sawyer grew up in the 1840s. Around this time, America, especially the North, was

undergoing "revolutionary changes in transportation and communication" (Geise 93). The river steam boat was invented in

1807 (Roberts and Kennedy 305) and subsequently took over mass transportation from sailboats using the ocean (Geise).

This was a big change from the previous small scale or trans-ocean transport. After the steam boat came the steam train

which revolutionised transportation in a similar fashion, and they synergistically opened the West to all people and boos

ready to smoke, but Huck was ready to experience some part of adult life.

became a steam-boat pilot (Sanderlin 25). But Huck, on the other hand, actually lived the river life as a boy. His oppressive

men can be cruel and so can God, but what one does personally is what is important. Huck came to this same conclusion

river. The town, consisting of a church, a school, a general store, taverns a mill and a docking area for the boats also reflect

trade and commerce enormously--not just of the big industrial towns but of the en-route towns and the farms, In 1849,

This demonstrates Tom's lack of conscience over the conscience that is blatant in Huck. Twain wrote Huck's character to be

where he began to write down stories his overactive imagination created. Twain had an ideal life in Hannibal. Even though

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Approximate Word count = 1905
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)