The great American novel, `The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', by Mark Twain, was and is a great standing example of Picaresque literature. The aspects of this novel with the intention of Picaresque are portrayed mostly through the history and personality of the main character, Huck Finn. The Picaresque themes executed in this story are: depicting the story through the life of a rogue, the low social derivation of the main character, and the structure less nature of the novel.

The character of Huckleberry Finn, though innocent with good intentions, is very much like that of a rogue; an unprincipled youngster who is very mischievous in nature. The first of Huck's many childish games and pranks, which follow that of the Picaresque, is his `initiation' into a band of robbers called Tom Sawyer's Gang. This particular gang was consequent from the adolescent mind of Tom, as well as `pirate...