Before 1884 there was never a Major American Novel written in dialect. However, in 1884 Mark Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book was told from the point of view of Huckleberry Finn an uneducated, ten year old boy. Mark Twain made an interesting choice of choosing Huckleberry Finn as the narrator, if Twain chose someone else such as Pap, the book would be different because it would be less juvenile, more angry and more racist.
Huckleberry Finn is a ten year old boy because he is only ten years old he is undereducated and still forming his opinions on different things such as racism. Huck is undereducated so this makes the text in the book written in a poor way. This caused the book to written differently then pretty much all …show more content…
This makes Huck a very unusual narrator for a book. When he Narrates the book the book the fact that Huck is still forming opinions becomes very obvious such as his relationship with Jim (a young black slave). Huck helps Jim Try to escape from slavery. On the way down the Mississippi Huck treats Jim sorta like a friend but also like a slave playing jokes on them. after one of these jokes Jim becomes very sad that Huck lied to hims. This is the turning point in Huck’s and Jim’s relationship and Huck starts treating Jim with more respect. Before this happens Huck talks to Jim with more a disrespectful tone such as when Huck said “I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little, and it wouldn't pass nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every time. (I reckoned I wouldn't say nothing about the dollar I got from the judge.)” This shows that Huck has no respect for the slave because he gives and fake coin and does even mention the dollar that
Huckleberry Finn is a ten year old boy because he is only ten years old he is undereducated and still forming his opinions on different things such as racism. Huck is undereducated so this makes the text in the book written in a poor way. This caused the book to written differently then pretty much all …show more content…
This makes Huck a very unusual narrator for a book. When he Narrates the book the book the fact that Huck is still forming opinions becomes very obvious such as his relationship with Jim (a young black slave). Huck helps Jim Try to escape from slavery. On the way down the Mississippi Huck treats Jim sorta like a friend but also like a slave playing jokes on them. after one of these jokes Jim becomes very sad that Huck lied to hims. This is the turning point in Huck’s and Jim’s relationship and Huck starts treating Jim with more respect. Before this happens Huck talks to Jim with more a disrespectful tone such as when Huck said “I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little, and it wouldn't pass nohow, even if the brass didn't show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that would tell on it every time. (I reckoned I wouldn't say nothing about the dollar I got from the judge.)” This shows that Huck has no respect for the slave because he gives and fake coin and does even mention the dollar that