When Huck and Tom meet near the end of the novel, Twain's portrayal of both boys' ideology sparks a stark contrast between practicality and romance. Tom is a risk taker, a divergent thinker, an imaginative guy; exactly the opposite of Huck. Huck is a realist, a hesitant decision maker, and a submissive guy. Faced with the challenge of freeing Jim from captivity by the Phelps family, both adventurers come up with a plan and after Huck presents his effective plan to Tom, he says "Wouldn't it work?" to which Tom replies, “Work? It would certainly work, like mice fighting. But it's too simple; there is nothing to do. What's the benefit of a plan that doesn't create more problems than that? It's milk like goose milk. Because, Huck, he wouldn't be more talked about than breaking into a soap factory" (Twain