Huck and Buck's Similarities

The first similarity between Huck and Buck are their names. Their names are are only a letter different. Both of the boys are similar in age and live in the same sort of environment. They are both surrounded by the so called "civilized" people and slave owners. With their surroundings being in common they also would much rather be in the wild living the sort of "uncivilized" life rather then being raised in a nice household, like they are now. In their first encounter, Buck takes Huck into a clothing store and rapidly starts to fire question after question to Huck. He asks him if Huck likes to dress up for sunday school because he doesn't and if he would rather live "uncivilized" then "civilized". Just like Huck, Buck is always up for a real adventure and none of the Tom Sawyer nonsense of pretending. They go into the forest for one of these adventures they enjoy and come across one of their so called rivals. Buck tells Huck to hide while he shoots at him. Once the shot is fired they both take off.