Twain’s writing is very honest in his novel. He does not attempt to beat around the bush, or sugarcoat the truth, instead he states things as they are. This is especially true when he discusses slavery. He wants the reader to know how slavery was truly a cruel act against humanity. He also wants to make his novel feel very real. Twain does this by using the language of the times. He states in his explanatory note that “In this book, a number of dialects are used…”(Twain 1). He then goes on to mention all the the dialects used throughout the story. He wants the reader to understand exactly how specific groups of people talked, and how they were all different from one another. The language each group or individual in the story uses towards slaves can be used to determine how they feel about them. Also, it come down to the fact that nobody today has the right to change the way Mark Twain wanted his story to sound. Twain once said “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug”(HOW????). Twain used the words he used for a reason, and those words should be kept the way twain intended them to be. Anything else strips the story of the lessons it is trying to deliver, and does nothing less than completely change the tone of the whole
Twain’s writing is very honest in his novel. He does not attempt to beat around the bush, or sugarcoat the truth, instead he states things as they are. This is especially true when he discusses slavery. He wants the reader to know how slavery was truly a cruel act against humanity. He also wants to make his novel feel very real. Twain does this by using the language of the times. He states in his explanatory note that “In this book, a number of dialects are used…”(Twain 1). He then goes on to mention all the the dialects used throughout the story. He wants the reader to understand exactly how specific groups of people talked, and how they were all different from one another. The language each group or individual in the story uses towards slaves can be used to determine how they feel about them. Also, it come down to the fact that nobody today has the right to change the way Mark Twain wanted his story to sound. Twain once said “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug”(HOW????). Twain used the words he used for a reason, and those words should be kept the way twain intended them to be. Anything else strips the story of the lessons it is trying to deliver, and does nothing less than completely change the tone of the whole