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Literary movement in American Literature
American literature has constantly changed and evolved over time. Different literary movements characterized and explored the different phases of the American experience. In the late eighteenth century, after the civil war, different political and cultural changes took place in the United States that led to the development of new literary themes and techniques. First was Realism in which writers tried to depict real everyday life as it actually was - as ordinary people experienced it. Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” are two works that exhibit this literary theme. Realism then took a cynical turn to Naturalism in which the writers tend to look at humans as
The story is about a young poor boy named Huckleberry who decides to do the right thing and help a slave escape to freedom. While hiding out on an island after he runs away to escape from his drunken father, Huck bumps into Jim who belongs to Miss Watson. At the time the story was written, the “right” thing for Huck to have done was to turn in Jim but he did not do that because deep down, he knew slavery was wrong. Instead, he rebels against the rules of society to do what he felt was morally right and took Jim along on his journey. He began to feel bad and was contemplating sending a letter he wrote to Miss Watson to tell her that he stole Jim but tore it up instead and said: “All right then, I’ll rather go to hell-and tore it up”(Norton 234). Huck refused to betray his new friend regardless of the consequences. Huckleberry Finn emerges as the Realist hero because he takes control of his own destiny by making decisions based on what he truly wanted instead of what society wanted or expected him to do. Even though he knows he is going to be in trouble if anyone found out, he refuses to conform to the rules set by the society and did what he thought was morally right by not turning Jim