The Wrong Use Of Huckleberry Finn's Dialect

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Yo’ ole father doan’ know yit what he’s a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he’ll go ’way, en den agin he spec he’ll stay”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is around a young man, Huck, looking for flexibility and experience. The shores of the Mississippi River give the background to the whole book. Huck is grabbed by Pap, his intoxicated father. The text description from Huck’s part shows how uneducated people in the past in terms of their language usage. In Jim’s part, it shows the language that was used by the slaves during the slavery time. It is an effective text that shows us the time period. The texts also gives out two different dialect contains wrong use of past tense “I knowed” which should be I knew. Huck's dialect

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