Ironically, he bribes Huck to go back to the Widow, while promising to start a gang of robbers. "But Tom Sawyer hunted me up, and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I go to the widow and be respectful." Society accepts Tom Sawyer, as long as he appears civilized. In many ways Tom is the exact opposite of Huck. Tom wants to be deemed acceptable, yet start a gang on the side. The town considers Tom to be the ideal boy. He is born in their society into a middle-class family, he likes to wear the nice clothing, go to school, and be socially adept. He gets his experience from reading romantic novels and watching adults. Unlike Tom, Huck didn't grow up in agreement with everyone else. His clothes were all raggedy and dirty, and he was uneducated. Appearances are the way to get by in this society. No one cared if Tom was stealing, as long as he went to school, church and wore nice clothing. .
Huck's lowlife dad walks into town apparently to see Huck. They ignore the evil in this man. The townsfolk don't intervene when "pap" gets drunk, and repeatedly try's to steal Huck's money from the bank. Since Huck Finn refused to conform, the people's seemingly loving attitude turns to apathy. The judge rules that Huck belongs to his "pap" even though he is abusive toward Huck. Huck's surrogate mother, the Widow Douglas and Judge Thatcher, the banker that helps Huck protect his money, are the only two townsfolk that seem to care what happens to Huck. " The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian but it was the new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man: so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if he could help it: so he"d druther not take a child away from his father. So Judge Thatcher and the widow had to quit on the business." (23-24) Thatcher and the widow are the only people in this society to make a moral decision instead of following society's apathy.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Plot, Character, and Setting Plot 1. ... N/A Conflict 3. The main type of conflicts in this story is man vs. man and man vs. society. The man vs. man conflict is showed with Pap and his son Huck, Huck is constantly beat and is not taken care of at all, he does not know manners and is in trouble until he gets help. Man vs. society is shown with Jim vs. ...
Of all the thematic issues expressed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the most apparent if the feature of movement and constant changing of location. ... Widow Douglas is attempting to assimilate Huck into a society in which he sees as nonsense, but who doesn't consider "Texas Justice" nonsense? This conflict of interest is not the central ironies of this story, but it is also one of the continuing ironies of the American frontier experience. What we have here is a society which is obviously in need of attention. ... The freedom desired by Huck Finn is almost a derivative of this p...