Twain Keeping It Realist
In the very first line of the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain say, “persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;...” (Notice). In other words, if you are looking for a book that focuses mainly on the plot or a specific theme then you have the wrong book. Not having an important storyline is a characteristic of realist writing. When Mark Twain wrote the book, Huck Finn he used the story elements plot, setting, and character to clearly show how the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a piece of realist writing. Realist plots emphasize the “norm” of daily life, captures the common place and people the way they genuinely are, and also contains dialect in the dialogue or speech between …show more content…
Giving priority to the characters of the story’s most chief precedents in making the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a piece of realist writing from the exhibition of everyday people, or by way of explanation the common people. This helps to ensure that the characters are realistic by developing them with common everyday problems. For instance Huck is a relatable character in the sense that his problems are common. Huck is “a fourteen-year-old vagabond, the son of the town drunk, who hates being adopted”(amazing, Afterword) makes him more relatable because those are all common problems that could really transpire in the common lower class life. Displaying the same points with another major character, Jim. Jim is a Negro he had different common problems at the time. With reminder of the time the story took place in, slavery was a common problem back then. Jim not only has common problems, but he plays the role in portraying everyday people as they really are with dialect. As mentioned earlier a dialect often used throughout the book is Missouri Negro dialect. This is a kind of illiterate and ungrammatical way of speaking. Being an educated was also a common problem at the time, and Mark Twain uses this dialect to make it easier to understand and relatable for the lower-class audience reading the book. Mark Twain uses Jim to do this because …show more content…
In doing so he uses two characters Tom and Huck to show the shift in thinking from romantic to realist writing. Picturing come as a romantic with his flamboyant and optimistic way of thinking compared to Huck 's logical and methodical way of thinking. This helps to prove how the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the best arrays to display really is
In the very first line of the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain say, “persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;...” (Notice). In other words, if you are looking for a book that focuses mainly on the plot or a specific theme then you have the wrong book. Not having an important storyline is a characteristic of realist writing. When Mark Twain wrote the book, Huck Finn he used the story elements plot, setting, and character to clearly show how the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a piece of realist writing. Realist plots emphasize the “norm” of daily life, captures the common place and people the way they genuinely are, and also contains dialect in the dialogue or speech between …show more content…
Giving priority to the characters of the story’s most chief precedents in making the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a piece of realist writing from the exhibition of everyday people, or by way of explanation the common people. This helps to ensure that the characters are realistic by developing them with common everyday problems. For instance Huck is a relatable character in the sense that his problems are common. Huck is “a fourteen-year-old vagabond, the son of the town drunk, who hates being adopted”(amazing, Afterword) makes him more relatable because those are all common problems that could really transpire in the common lower class life. Displaying the same points with another major character, Jim. Jim is a Negro he had different common problems at the time. With reminder of the time the story took place in, slavery was a common problem back then. Jim not only has common problems, but he plays the role in portraying everyday people as they really are with dialect. As mentioned earlier a dialect often used throughout the book is Missouri Negro dialect. This is a kind of illiterate and ungrammatical way of speaking. Being an educated was also a common problem at the time, and Mark Twain uses this dialect to make it easier to understand and relatable for the lower-class audience reading the book. Mark Twain uses Jim to do this because …show more content…
In doing so he uses two characters Tom and Huck to show the shift in thinking from romantic to realist writing. Picturing come as a romantic with his flamboyant and optimistic way of thinking compared to Huck 's logical and methodical way of thinking. This helps to prove how the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the best arrays to display really is