... up and "rubbed till he sweated like an Injun" but when nothing happens he decides that rubbing an "old tin lamp and an iron ring" was just some of Tom's lies. Huck's literal interpretation of Tom's stories allows Twain to point out how ridiculous it all seems when there is a person who does not realize the difference between fairy tales and real life ... ; lying with the intent to hurt people. When the dauphin teaches the duke and Huck Hamlet's soliloquy, he confuses lines from Richard III and Macbeth and simply misquotes Hamlet. Even in the first and most famous line of the soliloquy wh...

• Word Count: 1838
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School