Relations of Huck Finn and Romeo and Juliet

          Shakespeare and Twain are two of the most iconic writers in history and between their stories there are many parallels.  In the Seventeenth chapter Huck arrives at a gorgeous plantation that takes his breathe away, here he meets some of the most absurd people in american literature. In each book you find a variety of themes humor, sadness, and allusion.  In Romeo and Juilet the characters enjoy light hearted jousting and exchange playful jibes with each other.  For instince mercutio would often poke fun at romeo singing songs and poems to taunt him.  The Grangerfords tease each other in a simalar manner.  For instince  when Buck  says "Well...if they'd a ben some, I reckon I'd a got one."They all laughed, and Bob says: "Why, Buck, they might have scalped us all, you've been so slow in coming."" (Twain) Bob replys with a playful comeback showing the jousting side of the family akin to that seen in romeo and his family of friends.  They all tease each other as a way of showing affection and in both it can cause friction on occasion.   Here Bob is implying that the family would have died while waiting for Bucks slow self to come and save them,  much in the same manner Mercutio often teases Romeo in the sunlit streets of Verona.
            Both stories hold great elements of tragedy within them as well.  In Romeo and Juliet the two centers of the play streek across the stage as the perfect pair of 'star crossed lovers' a great romance seperated by a family feud.  Much is the same for Sophia Grangerford.  She has fallen for a boy in the Sheperson household, " She was beautiful.  So was her sister, Miss Sophia, but it was a different kind. She was gentle and sweet like a dove, and she was only twenty." (Twain) .  Here Huck admires the soft,sweet beauty of Sophia, who greatly mirrors the character Juliet for both were young, beautiful sweet girls, and both girls tales end in tragedy.  The act of Sophia running away rekindles the feud between the families and as it did in romeo and juiliet it ends with tears and death.  At the end of  the chapter we see Huck crying as he bends over the face of his dead friend.   Then much like Romeo Huck flees back to the woods with Jim, to the raft, tears staining his face.
          Both characters are often used as allusions to the themes, morals, and warnings their stories represent.  In Romeo and Juliet we see much the same warnings as we do in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  Two young people in love separated by the ignorance of families who merely hate each other to have someone to hate.  They show us that jousting can be in good fun until someone is hurt, a lesson both households were forced to learn.  Romeo and Juliet are used as illusions to tragedy and love and the dangers of ignorance.  These such allusions are seen in the Grangerford home, as well as a scene of irony from Emelines obsession with the desceesed, a girl who is herself dead.  Both stories are a popular choice to use for illusion for many authors signifying all that each stories portray.  Romeo and Juliet, an infamous tragedy shares many elements with the Mark Twains Grangerfords who themselves in turn become members of a tragic tale.