the adventures of huck finn
Critical Analysis: The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSetting: Late 1800's along the Mississippi RiverPlot: When the book begins, the main character, Huck Finn possesses a large sum of money. This causes his delinquent lifestyle to change drastically. Huck gets an education, and a home to live in with a caring elderly woman (the widow). One would think that Huck would be satisfied. Well, he wasn't. He wanted his own lifestyle back. Huck's drunkard father (pap), who had previously left him, was also not pleased with Huck's lifestyle. He didn't feel that his son should have it better than he. Pap tries to get a hold of the money for his own uses, but he fails. He proceeds to lock Huck up in his cabin on the outskirts of town. Huck then stages his kidnapping and subsequent killing, and takes a canoe across to Jackson's Island in the Mississippi River. There he comes across a runaway slave, Jim, and the two decide to leave the area. Huck leaves to avoid his father, and Jim leaves to escape a false charge of murder. The rest of the story follows all of their exciting and action packed adventures down the Mississippi River. Slavery is a big theme in this story. Mark Twain was obviously ag
When something happens that you thought wouldn't, that is surprise. Most everyone else thought of Jim, along with blacks in general, as something less than human. Twain also shows the hypocrisy in another theme, religion. All in all, this novel has been one of the best I have ever read, and I know I will end up reading it again because it is so good. Jim Jim starts off the book as the Widow Watson's slave, however, because she is going to sell Jim off he decides to run away. Main charactersHuckleberry FinnHuck is the narrator of the story and for the most part is honest to us, the readers. In one scene, the Shepardsons and the Gangerfords are listening to a sermon about brotherly love, and in the next scene they are shooting and killing each other. This is exactly the kind of behavior that twain didn't like. Used along with suspense, it makes the book read very fast. I figure from the book that Huck is probably around the age of twelve or thirteen. They also think that Twain doesn't use very many literary techniques when he writes. The way that Mark Twain uses almost all of the literary elements in this novel make it one of the most fun to read. -The EndWorks Cited page"Literary techniques of Mark Twain" 15 pars.
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