Leo Marx Critic on Huckleberry Finn
The objective of this paper is to provide summary and analysis of the novel titled "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Twain, 1998 p 1). The author's story contains problematic questions of freedoms, race, and identity. Twain's opening sentence notifies the readers about Huck Finn's personality describing him as a narrator who has an ability to narrate the story in his dialect and language, however, full of misspellings and grammatical errors. Overview of Huck's spoken language reveals that he sounds uneducated, young who come from Missouri. The first chapter introduces Huck's deadpan personality. Since Huck is a young, uneducated, and uncivilized, he uses a direct manner to describe events without using an extensive commentary. The theme of the novel explores the nation identity and race revealing Huck struggle with challenges of the strenuous journey because of the 19th-century social climate. Typically, Huck personality is in moral conflict with society, which he lives. In essence, the theme of the novel is related to the African-American culture because Finn character illustrates African-Americans voice as a whole showing a correlation between the black and white cultures in the United States.
2. Thesis Statement
The Twain masterpiece work of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a classic American literature that departs itself from European literary model. The unique aspect of the novel was that the author used vernacular speech, frontier humor as well as uneducated young narrator to reveal and portray a general life in America. The theme of the book portrayed a deformed conscience that is in contact with conscience and collision that revealed Huck's moral development as continue encountering an array of haphazard situations and people. Another dominant...
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