Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Friendship Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn't think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together. (1.6) |
Huck values friendship over religion and his eternal soul.
| Quote #2 [Tom Sawyer:] "Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood." (2.10) |
Tom takes friendship as seriously as a religious vow. For both Tom and Huck, we get the impression that belief in friendship might be like belief in a religion – they believe in it faithfully, and it is of utmost importance to both of them.
| Quote #3 When it was dark I set by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty well satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it. (8.11) |
Huck prefers to have companionship at all times.
