It is obvious that Twain prefers realism, so he makes that evident in the main character, Huck. Huck is a young boy but he isn’t the average boy one can imagine he might be. He is a realist, like Twain, and does not see the satisfaction of the romanticism ideals, but because he is a young boy who has not acquired full wisdom of the world, he is susceptible to letting his mind run free as to what lies beyond his knowledge. “So I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away,” (Twain 3). Huck embodies the ideas of romanticism by letting his mind run free and imagining that something bad will come his way if he does not fix his luck. This contradicts Twain’s goal of criticizing romanticism, but it is almost necessary because it shows the reader that Huck is just a young
It is obvious that Twain prefers realism, so he makes that evident in the main character, Huck. Huck is a young boy but he isn’t the average boy one can imagine he might be. He is a realist, like Twain, and does not see the satisfaction of the romanticism ideals, but because he is a young boy who has not acquired full wisdom of the world, he is susceptible to letting his mind run free as to what lies beyond his knowledge. “So I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away,” (Twain 3). Huck embodies the ideas of romanticism by letting his mind run free and imagining that something bad will come his way if he does not fix his luck. This contradicts Twain’s goal of criticizing romanticism, but it is almost necessary because it shows the reader that Huck is just a young