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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain. Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens raised in Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri Left school at eleven and worked for a printing shop By sixteen, he published a piece in a Boston magazine Worked as a riverboat pilot

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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  1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

  2. Mark Twain • Samuel Clemens raised in Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri • Left school at eleven and worked for a printing shop • By sixteen, he published a piece in a Boston magazine • Worked as a riverboat pilot • Reported for various newspapers before writing his works of fiction • “Mark Twain” is the river leadsman’s cry for two fathoms of water

  3. Setting • written after Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery, but time period of story set during slavery • presents hypocrisy of “civilized” society which values morality, but condones slavery • takes place in a fictional town called St. Petersburg, Missouri (based on Twains hometown of Hannibal) • majority of the novel follows Jim and Huck up the Mississippi river

  4. Huck Finnas written by Everett Emerson in The Heath Anthology of American Literature • Idyllic, epic, and satiric • Especially admired for its comedy, though Huck the narrator lacks a sense of humor • Huck’s great problem is to reconcile his adherence to social norms with what his heart tells him • Conflict centers on his experiences with Jim, whose humanity he has to learn to respect, for it is denied by what Huck has been taught • Controversy centers around whether Huck Finn is an attack on racism/exaltation of property values over human values or whether it is a racist narrative that mirrors Twain’s own values and understanding

  5. Huck, the Narrator • No pretension • Voice helped define what truly American literature was to be • Prepared us for all types of vernacular speech • Ernest Hemingway proclaimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”

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