Characters in American Novels of the 19th Century by Author (Study Guide) - Jack London Characters, Mark Twain Characters (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jack London Characters, Mark Twain Characters, List of Tom Sawyer Characters, Jim, Moses Pendergrass, Huckleberry Finn, Buck, Butterworth Stavely, Ivan Dragomiloff, Becky Thatcher. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Mark Twain's series of books featuring the fictional characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn include: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn also appear in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians (a sequel to Huckleberry Finn), Schoolhouse Hill (a version of The Mysterious Stranger) and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy (a sequel to Tom Sawyer, Detective). While all three uncompleted works had been posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy boasts a complete plot and nearly complete story. Twain abandoned the other two works after only finishing a few chapters. Tom Sawyer is a cunning, playful boy. He is around twelve years old. His best friends include Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn. He has a half-brother, Sid, a cousin, Mary, and his aunt Polly known as a nobody. Daughter of Aunt Polly and the cousin of Tom Huckleberry Finn is the protagonist and narrator of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective. He is also Tom Sawyer's closest friend. His father is Pap Finn. He is about 12 or 13 years old at the time of the events of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and would be a year older at the time of the major events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck's abusive, drunken, father who had vanished but shows up at the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and forcibly takes his son to live with him. He also tries to sue Judge Thatcher to get the six thousand dollars that Huck gave away to him, and confiscated whatever money Huck has ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=177297