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             The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a controversial story told in first person point of view through the eyes of Huck Finn. Huck is portrayed as being very naive and literal minded. Everything he witnesses or hears he tells word fo
             word, exactly how it happened. This characteristic of Huck's may at times cause him to appear ignorant, but it also makes him a very reliable narrator. Throughout the novel Twain uses satire to poke fun at romantic literature, and conveys his strong d
             taste for it to the reader. The adventure involving the wrecked boat, "Walter Scott", that Huck and Jim discover, and Tom Sawyer's elaborate yet unrealistic strategies to free Jim from slavery make Twain's detest for romanticism inevitably clear.
             Read literally, this novel is about a young boy and his adventures, but read on a deeper level it is understood that Twain is criticizing romanticism as well as civil law and society. Since the story is told through Huck's literal minded perspective, e
             nts Huck believes to be very serious, the reader may find quite humorous. Considering this, Twain's opinions and disagreements with society are exposed. Huck and Jim's first significant adventure occurs on a stormy night when they discover "Walter S
             tt", "a steam boat that had killed herself on a rock". The use of the name "Walter Scott", an author of romantic novels, for the boat is one of Twain's subtle uses of satire. More criticism is made about romantic literature through Tom's fixation wit
             basing all of his ideas and strategies around popular adventure stories. When Huck and Tom are deciding how they will rescue Jim, Tom discards Huck's practical idea of wrenching off a board
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