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...... All three of these stories are thick with plot, and whether that plot is fueled mainly by gossiping, rafting, or artwork it has a significant effect on the readers perception of the protagonist. Huck gets into one scrape after another floating down the Mississippi, and each one casts some doubt on his preconceived notions. At the beginning, things happen to Huck, and he goes with the tide. But after enough things happen to him, he forms a clear idea of what hes doing, telling Tom there's a nigger here that I'm a-trying to steal out of slavery, and his name is Jim -- old Miss Watson's Jim (Twain, 1885, 313). It is repeated encounters with the ills of society--that is, the novels plot--which ultimately convinces Huck of the right course. Convincing Asher Lev is more painful, but equally effective. Through a series of circumstances, mostly instigated by the Rebbe, Asher goes through a step-by-step separation from his parents. His father travels for the Rebbe throughout the novel, always distant from Asher. His mother has an incapacitating illness, then gets better, but eventually moves to Europe with Ashers father, leaving him with an Uncle. Ashers illness, too, separates them in

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