Huckleberry Finn Criticism
Since the day of its publication, Huckleberry Finn has been a subject ofintense moral debate. Early critics termed the language of the book crudeand vulgar. Huck was seen as the uncouth rebel with a strong racist streak.The library of Concord even banned the book calling it too 'coarse' and'trashy' (Boston Daily Globe) However the book survived such scathingcriticism and won the hearts of millions over the course of next fewdecades. Some literary scholars and critics played a major role, who, afterthe book's release, gave it the attention and affection it deserved andturned this so-called trashy book into one of the best and most widely readWILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1884) for example opined that, "the book is MarkTwain at his best, and remarking that Jim and Huckleberry are realcreations, and the worthy peers of the illustrious Tom Sawyer."Similarly the book managed to win the favor of other important critics andreviewers including Brander Mathews who in 1885, compared Huckleberry Finnto its predecessor Tom Sawyer and concluded, "...though Huckleberry Finn maynot quite reach these two highest points of Tom Sawyer, we incline to theopinion that the general level of the lat
I do not suggestthat it is his only book of permanent interest; but it is the only one inwhich his genius is completely realized, and the only one which creates itsown category. Huck never imagines anything except fears. Inhis analysis of the character, Pritchett wrote, "Huck isn't interested in"Moses and the Bulrushers" because Huck "don't take no stock of deadpeople. Whether Huck is the kind of boy who will grow up to build a newcivilization is doubtful; Tom Sawyer obviously would do so because he isimaginative. A few years later, PRITCHETT (1941) praised the central character of bookand was able to see beyond his uneducated, crude and uncouth exterior. Eliot in 1950 acknowledged the book as, ". Mark Twain obliges you to accept the boyas the humorous norm.
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