Literature allows for unrealistic worlds and stories, so why would anyone want to read a picaresque novel? The answer is simple, but the reason is not. Human beings love to place themselves in what they read; we are so selfish. Classic literature, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has demonstrated this. Readers relate to Huckleberry Finn because he is not perfect, rather he is imperfect and is human. The same goes for Jack Crabb in his story of Little Big Man. Although these are fictional tales, they depict Huckleberry and Jack as ordinary people who find themselves in wild experiences. They survive situations thrown at them with their mischievous characteristics in a way that the common person can relate to. Huckleberry Finn and Jack Crabb are often forced to lie or cheat their way out of trouble, using their resourcefulness and wits. Huckleberry is pragmatic with his lies, while not excluding creativity. Huckleberry often creates a family to hide the fact that he is helping a runaway black man. When Huckleberry encounters some slave catchers checking out his raft, Huckleberry plants the idea of ​​a family suffering from smallpox in their heads without saying it outright. He faked his own death by paying meticulous detail to his own murder and fled his abusive, drunken father. Likewise, Jack Crabb also cheated death in a shootout with Wild Bill Hickok. He blinds Hickok with his mirror ring, which he had previously used to cheat him at poker, to surprise Hickok with a gun pointed in his face. His deception both impressed and offended Hickok that Jack Crabb won't kill him: "you're the trickiest little devil I ever met...there's a couple hundred men who'd give everything they've got... paper medium... both were ordinary people who found themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and yet never saw themselves as more than others saw The extraordinary journeys of the mischievous heroes, Huckleberry and Jack Crabb, cement the bond of common people Huckleberry Finn was born to a drunkard to a motherless father, and grew up in a society where people could be owned as property. Faced with the immoral act of freeing Jim, a runaway negro, Huckleberry acted second modern morality. ignore the unjust law. Jack Crabb was given the opportunity to kill the men responsible for the deaths of his families. Instead of hating the Cheyenne, he was raised by them. Instead of killing General Custer, he fought alongside him , showing kindness, fear, anger, wit, happiness and flaws. That's why someone would want to read a picaresque novel.