I think that Mark Twain uses a young boy as the main character and narrator of the novel as it shows their curiosity about the world around them and their mischievous ideas. This makes the novel more interesting as it highlights acts that only children do that no adults would do so that we can understand how it is like being a child. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, when he dirtied his clothes in a fight, he was made to whitewash the fence. However, instead of doing it himself, he took advantage of his friend, Ben, and tricked him into painting the fence for him by pretending how much fun it was. This shows the witty mind of Tom Sawyer which we can all relate to when we were younger. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck was trying to escape from his drunk father with a runaway slave, Jim. This shows that sometimes, just because we are young, does not mean that we cannot do great things. Like Huck, he escaped from his father and sailed down the Mississippi river when he was just a teenager, proving that being young does not limit what you can do. In conclusion, I think Mark Twain used a young boy for main character of his novels to help us to relate to the mischief of what they can be up to and that age does not matter if you want to do great things.
