Actually, the book was the first important American work to depart from European literary models. It used frontier humour, vernacular speech and uneducated young narrator to portray life in America. Twain’s attempt to capture the sound of vernacular speech is part of the novel’s realism and its documentary quality. As we read the novel, we listen to Huck Finn himself speak in a free wheeling vernacular, unconstrained by any of the common rules of grammar or formal speech. Moreover, Huck is bored with school, indifferent to religion, resentful of clothes, manners and all the basic requirements of living in group. Curiously, as he continues to reject to some teachings of his society, he matures morally and mentally. By close observation we may notice that the novel itself displays signs of nonconformism in both its content and its construction. Critics tagged the book to be nonconformist because it does not follow the conventional type of
Actually, the book was the first important American work to depart from European literary models. It used frontier humour, vernacular speech and uneducated young narrator to portray life in America. Twain’s attempt to capture the sound of vernacular speech is part of the novel’s realism and its documentary quality. As we read the novel, we listen to Huck Finn himself speak in a free wheeling vernacular, unconstrained by any of the common rules of grammar or formal speech. Moreover, Huck is bored with school, indifferent to religion, resentful of clothes, manners and all the basic requirements of living in group. Curiously, as he continues to reject to some teachings of his society, he matures morally and mentally. By close observation we may notice that the novel itself displays signs of nonconformism in both its content and its construction. Critics tagged the book to be nonconformist because it does not follow the conventional type of