The books, The Giver, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Charlotte’s Web, each deal with the idea of death in some form or another. Each novel has a very different setting, a dystopian society, a farm in the mid-1900s, and the south in the nineteenth century. Each of the stories have a very different mood and atmosphere, and in each book there is a community with a very distinct attitude surrounding the central characters. Each community has a different view on the sanctity of life, and in some ways their opinions greatly conflict with the main character’s perspective. It can be proposed that the easiest identifier for valuing life is seeing how someone treats death. I would argue that in each of these stories the larger community thinks about death in terms of what is best for the community, versus the main character who sees death as a personal and emotional experience that is not to be belittled. …show more content…
Instead, all of the attention is given to Tom and Joe, “Aunt Polly, Mary and the Harpers threw themselves upon their restored ones, smothered them with kisses and poured out thanksgivings, while poor Huck stood abashed and uncomfortable, not knowing exactly what to do or where to hide from so many unwelcoming eyes,” (Twain 94). They didn’t pay him any attention and merely left him by himself and uncomfortable. He and his family were not prominent members of the town and so the community wasn’t truly invested in how he