In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain utilizes characterization, details, and sentence syntax to convey a reflective tone toward the topic of manhood, growing up mentally. Mark Twain uses characterization is show the reflective mentality of growing up. For example in the start of the book Huck, Tom, and the boys were establishing their band and each had to offer their families to kill, but Huck didn’t have one. It says: “I was almost ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson- they could kill her.” (7) Because of his actions Huck can be described as immature. He did not comprehend what death or killing actually meant. Huck didn’t think of what he was doing by offering Miss Watson’s
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Overall he didn’t include what was going on in Huck’s mind when he would be doing immature tricks on people. When Huck dresses as a girl the author doesn’t include what Huck thinks the woman is thinking of his idea. He kept on stacking lie upon lie (54). Twain doesn’t give a word about what Huck would think his consequences were to be if he were to be caught. He purposely doesn’t add this to say Huck wasn’t thinking about it all. He failed to think of the future of a failure, because he was so sure he would get away with it. But Twain includes details of regret of Huck’s actions after trying to fool someone, like when he tried to make a fool of …show more content…
The very first sentence of the novel is short. “YOU don’t know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.” (1). This quote is made up of one coordinator, connecting the two independent clauses; the first clause fairly long compared to the second clause. The sentence is a compound one. The author writes this sentence and others short in the beginning to symbolize Huck’s mind. In the beginning Mark Twain writes about Huck thinking quickly. He didn’t think carefully and gave the life of Miss Watson in exchange for being part of the group of boys with Tom. This example is quite simple in comparison to the first sentence of the last paragraph of the
Overall he didn’t include what was going on in Huck’s mind when he would be doing immature tricks on people. When Huck dresses as a girl the author doesn’t include what Huck thinks the woman is thinking of his idea. He kept on stacking lie upon lie (54). Twain doesn’t give a word about what Huck would think his consequences were to be if he were to be caught. He purposely doesn’t add this to say Huck wasn’t thinking about it all. He failed to think of the future of a failure, because he was so sure he would get away with it. But Twain includes details of regret of Huck’s actions after trying to fool someone, like when he tried to make a fool of …show more content…
The very first sentence of the novel is short. “YOU don’t know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.” (1). This quote is made up of one coordinator, connecting the two independent clauses; the first clause fairly long compared to the second clause. The sentence is a compound one. The author writes this sentence and others short in the beginning to symbolize Huck’s mind. In the beginning Mark Twain writes about Huck thinking quickly. He didn’t think carefully and gave the life of Miss Watson in exchange for being part of the group of boys with Tom. This example is quite simple in comparison to the first sentence of the last paragraph of the