Huckleberry Finn And To Kill A Mockingbird Comparison Essay

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are both written in the voices of children. The narrator in Huckleberry Finn is Huck Finn himself. He tells the story from his point of view as a young man and in his own dialect and language. Not only do we hear Huck's own voice in the novel, but through his relating of his adventures, we hear other southern dialects, such as that of former slaves. All of this comes from the perspective of a child in the post-Civil War Era. The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is Scout. Her full name is Jean Louise Finch. The story takes place in the 1930s when Scout was six years old. It is important to note that she is telling the story as an adult. So, even though she is writing from a first person account, she is recounting the events as an adult. She is telling the story from retrospect. Each book gives a bold and fearless commentary of the social mores of the time and place where it is set. Both people express similar ideas and beliefs which are different from that of society. These ideas help the readers better understand them and what they think of society. Huck and Scout are similar to each and that is true through the use of pathos by their authors. The world is unfair and there are people who do bad things to get their way. In both novels, Huck and Scout make the right choice and do what they can to act on the choice they made. They both care about people and do what’s right to them to protect the ones they care about. In chapter 26 of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck does not allow the King (dauphin) and Duke to …show more content…
The attitudes displayed by both protagonists are decidedly counter-cultural for the time period they lived in. They are progressive, compassionate and anti-racism. This is what made them stand out and different from others in their society and this is what made these two characters