Chapters 36-39, written asignment

At the beginning of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we meet a character named Tom Sawyer. A boy who everyone follows, including Huck. The first Episode of this novel is about Tom and Huck but when Huck begins his adventure down the Mississippi, Tom is left behind and almost forgotten until he reappears in chapter 33. Tom though, was not brought back without a purpose, and his purpose was to be the way that Mark Twain could show his dislike for romantic literture.
In order to get what Twain is doing, you have to realize that because Tom acts off his emotions and imagination, he represents the romantic side. Where as Huck acts on reason, representing realism. He uses this to to show the difference and how foolish and idiotic romantics are. So whenever Tom is around, the theme romantic vs realism will appear and Twain will show the difference between the two and how romanticism is ridiculous. Which is seen in chapters 35- 39 when Tom comes back into Huck's adventure.
There were many ways in which you could see Twains distain for Romantice fiction in Chapters 36- 39. For one, Tom is back so you know Twain is going to ridicule Romanticism some how. Another way you can tell, is Huck's idea of getting Jim out is quick, safe and simple. This is because he doesn't want to have that chance of getting caught. He learned after trying to have an adventure on the Walter Scott that real life adventures are scary and you only do what you have to do to get out safe. When Tom "helps" Huck rescue Jim, Tom has to throwing in a lot of ridiculous ideas, like making Jim write scribbles on the walls and grind stone and having him sleep with snakes and rats. Tom wanted an adventure so he through in all of these little things to make the rescue more heroic and dangerous. Tom doesn't ever think of the best thing or about Jim and how he probably just wants to be out of there, Tom just wants it to be dangerous and him to look like a hero. He also gets all of his ideas from romantic books like Baron Trenck, Casanova, or Benvenuto Chelleeny, where the characters are heros. Twain's disdain for romantic fiction was evident in the way he made all of plans ridiculouly pointless.