Mark Twain's 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A rational
I. Citation
Twain, Mark, and Peter Coveney. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. Print.
II. Summary
The novel is about Huck a thirteen year old boy who goes through many unpleasant events like not being able to get away from his real father in a court case deciding if he may be adopted by another family. But instead the judge sentences him to stay with his father at a cabin. Huck goes to live with him but his father gets drunk quite frequently and beats Huck down. Eventually Huck decides to fake his death and runs away. While he runs away he finds a black slave man named Jim who must run away before being sold again. The two go off on an adventure …show more content…
Mark Twain wrote this novel to show the existence of slavery and virulent racial prejudice in a country dedicated to liberty and equality. America was unfamiliar with an African American black man and a white Caucasian boy bonding at the time and twain shows the moral authority that can come between them. Twain wrote the book at a time when ex-slaves were subjected to economic exploitation, disenfranchisement and racially motivated lynchings, and the last third of the novel is increasingly understood as a satire of the many betrayals and indignities African-Americans endured after the breakdown of …show more content…
He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".
When Twain first started writing Huckleberry Finn, he thought he was writing the sequel and another boy’s book of Tom Sawyer. But instead he realized that he was writing for the society of people who believe that they were higher and put themselves above another human being.
XII. Works Cited
Alward, Mary, Mark Twain 's Huckleberry Finn: A History of Censorship for the Banned American Literature Classic Insightful Writers, Informed Readers
Donahue, Jenn. "Book Banning: Censorship in the History of Literature." Associated Content
Glencoe Literature Library Study Guide on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry
Fishkin, Shelly Fisher. “Teaching Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Hutchinson, Stuart, ed. Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. New York: Columbia University Press,
A rational
I. Citation
Twain, Mark, and Peter Coveney. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. Print.
II. Summary
The novel is about Huck a thirteen year old boy who goes through many unpleasant events like not being able to get away from his real father in a court case deciding if he may be adopted by another family. But instead the judge sentences him to stay with his father at a cabin. Huck goes to live with him but his father gets drunk quite frequently and beats Huck down. Eventually Huck decides to fake his death and runs away. While he runs away he finds a black slave man named Jim who must run away before being sold again. The two go off on an adventure …show more content…
Mark Twain wrote this novel to show the existence of slavery and virulent racial prejudice in a country dedicated to liberty and equality. America was unfamiliar with an African American black man and a white Caucasian boy bonding at the time and twain shows the moral authority that can come between them. Twain wrote the book at a time when ex-slaves were subjected to economic exploitation, disenfranchisement and racially motivated lynchings, and the last third of the novel is increasingly understood as a satire of the many betrayals and indignities African-Americans endured after the breakdown of …show more content…
He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".
When Twain first started writing Huckleberry Finn, he thought he was writing the sequel and another boy’s book of Tom Sawyer. But instead he realized that he was writing for the society of people who believe that they were higher and put themselves above another human being.
XII. Works Cited
Alward, Mary, Mark Twain 's Huckleberry Finn: A History of Censorship for the Banned American Literature Classic Insightful Writers, Informed Readers
Donahue, Jenn. "Book Banning: Censorship in the History of Literature." Associated Content
Glencoe Literature Library Study Guide on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry
Fishkin, Shelly Fisher. “Teaching Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Hutchinson, Stuart, ed. Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. New York: Columbia University Press,