the novels they appear in. In Huckleberry Finn, it's revealed that Huck also considers Tom to be his best friend. At various times in the novel, Huck mentions that Tom would put more "style" in Jim and his adventure. Jim, a runaway slave whom Huck befriends, is another dominant force in Huck's life. He is the symbol for the moral awakening Huck undergoes throughout Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This is seen when Huck considers sending a letter to Ms. Watson telling her where Jim is but ultimately chooses to rip it up despite the idea in the south that one who tries helping a slave escape will be sent to eternal punishment. Pap Finn is Huck's abusive, drunken father who shows up at the beginning of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and forcibly takes his son to live with him. Pap's only method of parenting is physical abuse. Although he seems derisive of education and civilized living, Pap seems to be jealous of Huck and is infuriated that his son would try to amount to more, and live in better conditions than he did. Despite this, early in the novel Huck uses his father's method of "borrowing" though he later feels sorry and stops. As a tetralogy books theory Tom, Jim and especially Huck - might be t Illegitimated Sons of t Tatcher Peace Judge, brothers with his little Daughter Becky Tatcher, t Becky, t Judge, Widow and Miss Watson all taking great Spiritual interest in all their Crew - an attitude antithetical to Pop Finn; this so called parenting in Patriachal Christendom Societies or just vicious French Fashioned practice, is studied and presented by Mark Twain in his American social study of his first book on Utah and Californian Gold "Roughing It" & in t Novel with t title of "Puddnhead Wilson", with those two identical brothers, one a Negro B a s t a r d and one a legitimate white inheritor Son, mixed up by Revenge & Destiny. The Professor of t Balloon might b t Poe Judge Illegitimate Father, and Silas Phelps in t Detective Novella t Dissident in Christianity down in Arkansaw. Inspiration The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Woodson Blankenship, who lived in a "ramshackle" house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.1 Twain mentions his childhood friend Tom Blankenship as the inspiration for creating Huckleberry Finn in his autobiography: "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed,