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    use one’s experience to capture some of the most authentic details of any American novel is both stunning and breathtaking; this is exactly what America’s most well-known author, Mark Twain, did while writing his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck Finn flees his father’s cabin and embarks on a journey away from civilization with his friend and runaway slave, Jim. They travel through the Mississippi River using various…

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a wild and winding tale of a thirteen-year-old boy written by Mark Twain. After escaping the grasp of his abusive and alcoholic father, Huck meets up with one of his former slaves, Jim. He learns that Jim is attempting to travel north for freedom. With nowhere else to go and nothing better to do, Finn joins him and alas, their adventures begin. Although the story seems innocent and simple from the outside, there are many hidden messages conveyed through…

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    believes has a flawed social structure. He criticizes romanticism throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Romanticism is a movement that emphasizes inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of an individual. Twain uses the characters to show different instances of romanticism. Tom Sawyer, a friend of Huckleberry Finn, is seen as a romantist. Tom Sawyer likes to find ways to make his adventures more difficult than it has to be. Tom makes a band of robbers. He states that…

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    comedy shows, satire is very unavoidable. An exceptional example of satire is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Twain is a satirist which means that his works contain numerous uses of satire. Because Twain is a satirist and used many different satirical devices, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a superlative example of a satirical literary work. One satirical device that Twain used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was irony. Irony is where the actual intentions get…

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    If Huckleberry Finn had made different decisions, the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” would be drastically different by the end. Huck’s decisions were not only affected by his own way of thinking, but they were also determined by outside forces. In the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, Huck’s upbringing, other characters, and his own thoughts affect if he chooses the right or wrong action. Huck’s upbringing was not very structural, so he does not not know how…

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Choice #2 In the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s internal struggle to see Jim as human is feeble, but by the end of the novel, Huck sees Jim as an equal. In Chapter 10 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck plays a prank on Jim. Huck’s prank is actually pretty serious. Huck finds a rattlesnake in the cavern and kills it. He curls the snake up and puts it at the bottom of Jim’s sleeping bag. Little does he know, the mate always comes back…

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a fiction that follows huckleberry Finn through his trials and adventures. Huck is determined to help Jim get to the free states even though it might get him into trouble. The Adventures of Huckleberry tells about his Pap coming back, Meeting Jim, and Jim getting sold. Huck wasn’t happy with his new life because he had to do things that he wasn’t used to going. But he sticks with it because tom told him he had to if Huck wanted to be in…

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    In 2011, the NewSouth Publishing company revealed their intentions for a new edition of Mark Twain’s classic, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and has caused plentiful of controversy in the public. Alan Gribben, a Mark Twain scholar, and the company joined together to create this new edition and made a rather large decision to replace the ‘n word’ with other words found more suitable. The word appears more than 200 times and is to be replaced with words such as “slave”. Their hope was to…

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    The first notable character that Mark Twain uses is Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn’s childhood friend. Tom Sawyer lives his life according to the adventures that he reads about in books in order to make his own life an adventure. He will even go out of his way to make this happen. This is prominent when Huckleberry Finn asks Tom to help him free Jim from the Phelps family. When he is devising a plan to free Jim, Tom states, “…this whole thing is just as easy and awkward as it can be. And so it…

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel written by Mark Twain in 1884. First published by Bantam Dell in New York, the 293 page book serves as a thrilling sequel to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book as depicted by the title as about a fictional adventure that Huckleberry Finn finds himself on. The book takes place in the South in the time before the Civil War broke out. Readers stay alongside Huckleberry Finn as he travels throughout the south with the slave of Huck’s…

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