The Friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry FinnThesis: Through escapades, the South, characters, and two novels, Mark Twain develops the famous friendship of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.I. IntroductionII. FriendshipA. Differences in statusB. AdventuresC. LoyaltyIII. Huckleberry A. The basis for the character of HuckleberryB. Huckleberry and TomC's loyalty and friendship. Huckleberry's concern with statusIV. TomA. The basis of TomB. The exasperation and fascination of TomC. The depth of TomV's character. HoneyA. Symbolic of the boys' journeyB. The responsibilities and changes that the treasury entailsVI. ConclusionBorn in 1834 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain struck out on his own when he was eighteen. He traveled America, working as a riverboat captain, a gold rush explorer, and finally as a writer. As a journalist in Nevada he wrote articles mocking politicians. To keep his identity secret he signed his articles “Mark Twain.” The name is a term he learned as a steamboat captain. The term means that the water is deep enough for a steamboat to sail safely (Rinaldo 7). On June 6, 1876, Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in England. He would not appear in America for another six months (American Heritage 96). Mark Twain once said of Tom Sawyer that it was not a children's book at all, but would only be read by adults. He had given the book all its powers of serious communication and did not want it to be considered a simple children's book. From its publication in 1876 until quite recently, the readers have been mainly children. He wrote the novel while he and his family lived in Hartford, Connecticut, and while Twain ... middle of paper ... chapters of the Autobiography of Mark Twain." North American Review, September 1906. January 23, 2002 Grant , Ulysses S. and Twain, Mark. “Tom Sawyer; Little Bighorn, Battle of the Month 1876. American Heritage 52.3 (2001): p. 96. Jehlen, Myra and Robinson, Forrest G. The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain, Concord: Cambridge University Press, 1995.LeMaster, J.R. and James D. Wilson, The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, New York:Garland, 1993. 110 – 129.Machlis, Paolo. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters: University of CaliforniaPress, 1986.Pinsker , Sanford. "Huckleberry Finn and the Problem of Freedom." Virginia Quarterly Review, 77.4 (2001): 642 - 650. Rinaldo, Denise. "Make Him Laugh." September 3, 2001: 13.Trilling, Diana , The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Harcourt, 1964. 17 – 29.)