What Is The Role Of Language In Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

Every writer has some purpose, some accomplishment to achieve within their words. Writer’s duty insists that all writers share a common duty to accomplish some goal in their writing, whether it be chronicling the past or properly depicting human emotion. Indeed, those are two common ideas about writer’s duty, whether they are espoused by bloggers on The Huffington Post or respected and established authors and historians (who most likely inspired said bloggers). These ideas sound sensible and are commonly fulfilled by works that are established as critical and commercial successes in literature. William Faulkner himself, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, argued that the writer’s duty is to write of true human emotion, and in doing so the …show more content…
It becomes up to the critics and the populous to determine the worth of a work. Writers need not consider a “higher” purpose while writing, but readers might while reading, and they can be the ones to pull it out of a piece. A writer only needs to write what they wish to write, and let the interpretation be done later on. Often, it is the most well renowned writers who prove this to be true. Such is the case with Mark Twain’s novel Huckleberry Finn places an intense emphasis on this idea. The ending of the book is highly controversial. It is long and droning, extending farther than the reader anticipates it to and frustrating the reader at almost every turn. Some see it as pointless, either a folly by Twain or a section included for the sole purpose of frustrating and annoying the reader. Others view it as brilliant, representing the frustration and dehumanization of African Americans. Twain never stated his purpose; he didn’t need to. He only needed to write what he wanted to write and allow others to interpret it. Mass acclaim was not guaranteed by putting writing anything he wanted, however. It required a steady and consistent process of …show more content…
In the process of writing his landmark novel, The Grapes Of Wrath, Steinbeck composed many other pieces including a full length scathing satire about the lives of migrant workers and multiple short and descriptive investigative and fact based pieces. The culmination of These works was a final outpour in which he found a perfect source of inspiration for his novel, and wrote constantly for months on end until it was completed. He embodies the core idea of simply writing. He wrote what he felt like writing, until stumbling upon a brilliant source of inspiration and creating a truly defining work. By holding a higher sense of purpose in the back of his head, his preliminary writings would have been far different or even nonexistent, and would have lead him astray from the inspiration he so desired. In reality, Steinbeck completely fulfilled Faulkner’s concept of writer’s duty, and did so without considering