The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain and was published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and was published in the United States in 1885. Mark Twain is well known for writing in dialect and this story includes examples of several different dialects, including Midwestern, Southern, and African American dialects. Twain’s use of these different dialects makes the story feel more natural, though it can make the novel difficult to read.
Huckleberry Finn was written as a confrontation of slavery and racism in Missouri and is the essential meaning of freedom. Throughout the story, Huckleberry Finn grows as a person and achieves moral greatness in his willingness to protect Jim and sacrifice himself.
At the beginning of Huckleberry Finn, we hear both Huck’s voice and Twain’s voice as the author. From the start, Huck speaks to us in a conversational manner that is very much his own but it sets up for Twain to be the one speaking. When Huck mentions “Mr. Mark Twain” by name, he gains a sense of independence from his author.
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At the same time, Huck links Twain’s new novel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, although he is careful to note that the two works are different from each other and that we do not need to have read Tom Sawyer to understand this one. Twain does seek to take advantage of Tom Sawyer’s popularity by using some of the same characters from the first book in this one.
Huckleberry Finn is an ordinary boy that has to go through many different conflicts within himself and the outside world. He is uneducated and honestly doesn’t really even want to learn anything. Miss Watson takes Huck in while Pap is gone and tries to civilize him but he just doesn’t want any part of it, he doesn’t education is important. “my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn’t see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widow’s where you had to wash, and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and be forever bothering over a book and have old Miss Watson peeking at you all the time. I didn’t want to go back anymore.
I had stopped cussing because the widow didn’t like it, but now I took to it again because pap hadn’t any objections. Twain wrote this book as a way to show that just by growing up and maturing, Huckleberry can make the right decisions in his life and that makes him a noble character.
This book really makes a stand against slavery because it at first we see how Huck is scared to help Jim because he feels that he is sinning and that he will go to hell if he helps him but as the story progresses and they face more challenges, such as the two gold diggers that blackmail them into helping them and Jim getting caught by Toms Aunt Sally, Huck starts to really want to help Jim get to a free state so he won’t be sold or punished and he can go find his family.
