Just as Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mark twain gives distinction between wilderness and society in Huckleberry Finn. By observing the main characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, this same relationship can be found. To many people the wilderness can represent pandemonium where as society represents structure, though this is not the case found in the novel. Huck, coming from a poor uncivilized lifestyle, would easily be presumed as wild and disorderly though it's not the case. Tom is presumed as being behaved and well mannered though this is not the case either.

Huck and Tom have many differences both in character and behavior. One of the things shown in the story is that Huck has the tendency to create very simplistic plans. This is abnormal for someone with Huck's upbringing because you would suspect disorderly, chaotic schemes from him and his imagination. Tom Sawyer, however, creates elaborate...