American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English‚ characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn‚ a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer‚ Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty
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"Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain‚ who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel‚ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there‚" Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer‚ Detective‚ two shorter sequels to the first two books. Biography Huck is the son of the town’s vagrant drunkard
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himself and referencing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. "You don’t know about me‚" Huck narrates‚ "without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚" but that ain’t no matter." He tells readers that‚ for the most part‚ Twain told the truth in Tom Sawyer but that everyone tells some lies‚ even people like Aunt Polly and the Widow Douglas. Huck gives a brief summary of how he and Tom got six thousand dollars each at the end of Tom Sawyer. Judge Thatcher has taken Huck’s money
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Alecia Aylward What is the big deal about "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"? In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain envisioned a book that was to be taken as a satire (Hearn on Twain 355). Huckleberry Finn was not intended to be judged by its grammatical content but instead stir up unjust social norms of the post-civil war era (Arac 1). The novel itself serves to inform the reader of a small account of what slavery was like prior to the Civil War and how the treatment of
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best friend‚ Tom Sawyer‚ represents imagination. In a Mississippi River community Twain makes sure that Tom and Huck differ so the strict separation of imagination and reality is identified. Huck Finn takes ideas and theories of his own and imagines what Tom would do before he acts. Tom’s ideas and aspirations prove he has quite an imagination. During pre-Civil War time Twain has Huck‚ Tom and Jim‚ a run away slave‚ go on a pilgrimage together. For Jim it is a pilgrimage to freedom. Tom goes from imagination
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in this story. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts out with a brief description of the previous book‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both boys stole twelve thousand dollars in the previous book; each boy got six thousand a piece. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are both young boys growing up before the Civil War along the Mississippi. Both boys are mischievous but Tom is the one with all the plans‚ he reads a lot which gives him these ideas‚ which are fairly eccentric. Huck Finn does not live with
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his old ways and focusing more on Tom Sawyer’s shenanigans rather than Huck’s growth. First‚ Huck Finn starts off as a follower who looks up to Tom Sawyer and wants to be just like him. For example‚ when learning about the “good” the “bad”
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It is as if Mark Twain begins portraying Jim through Huck ’s observation rather than Tom ’s observation. As Huck increasingly considers Jim as a more and more complex person with ideas and the conscious mind‚ Jim is described to the reader as less of a person who is comic. Jim ’s deep human world is described in particular in his harrowing
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escapes from slavery in order to reunite with his family. To me Jim is written to be perceived as an undermined person‚ but in actuality Jim is the reason for Huck taking the chances he did. A minor character that was quite fond of Huck Finn was Tom Sawyer. Tom is key to Huck having the passion and intuition that he does. There are many other characters in the novel such as Miss Watson‚ Huck’s father‚ miscellaneous river men‚ the King and Duke‚ and families of different locations from Huck’s journey
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writings‚ most notably‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. To begin‚ Mark Twain grew up during the latter two-thirds of the eighteenth century in a small town on the Mississippi River. This town is named Hannibal‚ Missouri which provides the basis for the setting in which the novel takes place. Hannibal Missouri is actually the primary influence Mark Twain used when he was composing the city‚ St. Petersburg‚ on the Mississippi River for his character‚ Tom Sawyer‚ to live in. Mark Twain
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