Tom Takes Over

When Tom and Huck are planning the escape for Jim, Tom becomes the new leader, making him in some ways, a kind of dictator. When he does this, the story loses it's tone that is being spoken from Huck's conscience and turns more into a book written for children, because it carries the aspect of adventure. When Tom becomes the leader of Jim's escape plan, he deems all of Huck's plans as completely unrealistic. By doing this he tends to block out Huck himself at certain parts of the story. For example on page 151, (online text) Huck states, "He had forgot me and everything else." Tom does things like this when trying to grasp what to do in the situation.