Ernest Hemingway has been quoted saying,” All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Mark Twain is seen as a revolutionary author, he did what no one else would do. In the 1800s America had been separate from England for a little under a hundred years when this book was published, but people during that time were still writing in an England language centric literature style. Consequently, beginning with Mark Twains “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” American literature received its voice, so yes I agree with Ernest Hemingway.
Most of the language used in the book was the vernacular language of America’s southern region. Bringing an element of realness to his books, Twain used accents and slang …show more content…
This quote shows Huck wanting to use the river to escape Pap and Miss Watson, “While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep Pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen. (Twain 31)” While with Jim for a few days now Huck and him had formed a relationship so when Mrs. Judith Loftus started going on about how her husband and a couple other men had gone to Jackson Island to hunt for Jim and how she hoped he got caught Huck did this,” I had got so uneasy I couldn’t set still. I had to do something with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it. My hands shook, and I was making a bad job of it. (Twain 58)” This shows Huck gaining freedom and insight from this society’s backwards morals, later in the book you learn that helping a slave is seen as a sin towards “their owner” but Huck forms his own opinion on slavery as a young boy in the south and his opinion is surprising. The Mississippi River isn’t just a symbol of freedom for Huck, Jim sees the river as a way towards the north. His hope is shown when he tells Huck this,” De river wuz a-risin’, endey wuz a good current; so I reck’n’d ‘at by fo’ in de mawnin’ I’d be twenty-five mile down de river, en den I’d slip in jis b’fo’ daylight en swim asho’, en take to de woods on de Illinois side. (Twain 44-45)”Even though Jims original plan doesn’t work out he hatches another one to get himself to freedom. Later in the book when Jim had been captured and put back into slavery, Huck sits himself down and plans to write to Miss Watson, Jims former owner about his whereabouts because,
Most of the language used in the book was the vernacular language of America’s southern region. Bringing an element of realness to his books, Twain used accents and slang …show more content…
This quote shows Huck wanting to use the river to escape Pap and Miss Watson, “While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep Pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen. (Twain 31)” While with Jim for a few days now Huck and him had formed a relationship so when Mrs. Judith Loftus started going on about how her husband and a couple other men had gone to Jackson Island to hunt for Jim and how she hoped he got caught Huck did this,” I had got so uneasy I couldn’t set still. I had to do something with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it. My hands shook, and I was making a bad job of it. (Twain 58)” This shows Huck gaining freedom and insight from this society’s backwards morals, later in the book you learn that helping a slave is seen as a sin towards “their owner” but Huck forms his own opinion on slavery as a young boy in the south and his opinion is surprising. The Mississippi River isn’t just a symbol of freedom for Huck, Jim sees the river as a way towards the north. His hope is shown when he tells Huck this,” De river wuz a-risin’, endey wuz a good current; so I reck’n’d ‘at by fo’ in de mawnin’ I’d be twenty-five mile down de river, en den I’d slip in jis b’fo’ daylight en swim asho’, en take to de woods on de Illinois side. (Twain 44-45)”Even though Jims original plan doesn’t work out he hatches another one to get himself to freedom. Later in the book when Jim had been captured and put back into slavery, Huck sits himself down and plans to write to Miss Watson, Jims former owner about his whereabouts because,