When he wrote of Huck's choice to be loyal to Jim, his ex-slave friend, it was a pivotal moment in American literature. This American tale has mightily offended succeeding generations of American readers for one reason or another.
With its publication in , the Concord Mass. Public Library banned the book for "being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people.
Indeed, Twain had introduced a new literary genre--breaking ground by writing in a regional dialect, using an offensive word for black people more than times, taking the risk of alienating readers.
American literature includes what the Americans beliefs are, and Twain includes that and comments on it. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has many characteristics that fall under American literature. This novel has an American author. Mark Twain was born in the United States.
He was born in in Florida. Twain writes about the United States and includes its conditions. He writes how the United States viewed slavery and each other, through the eyes of Huck. Twain writes how Jim was treated the the white men and how he was viewed as different and inferior. He also writes with American English language and uses American.
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The protagonist is a very likable character: good-hearted, loyal and sensitive. After all, the events narrated in the story take place long before the American Civil War and the official abolition, in a time when the act of helping to free a slave was illegal and against the established social and moral order.
This is how Twain verbalizes the main point of the story:. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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In fact, "freedom appears to be a single concept, in fact one that can unite individuals as different as black and white," Jehlen 1. Huck's freedom is so dear to him that he runs off into nature , which is a common element seen in American literature throughout this nation's founding Jehlen 1. This also ties the ideal American with his strong connections to the natural land around him.
He is a product of the wide open possibilities Both Huck and Jim find a kind of comfort in nature that they are unable to find in the turbulent and hypocritical society they are products of. Huck would rather be on the fringe of society enjoying his freedom, than being restricted by a hypocritical society which aims to limit the freedom he can enjoy, "Jim this is nice, […] I wouldn't want to be anywhere else but here," Twain Huck embodies the idea of being completely free, and this is one of the biggest elements which tie him to the ideal image of Americanism in literature and culture.
Despite Huck Finn's seemingly destructive nature, he is truly an American hero in that he exhibits a number of positive personal qualities. He is unprejudiced and kindhearted, making him the ideal heroic figure for a period of time when the rest of the country, and world for that matter, was in a state of uncertainty.
In this, his character is advocating equal opportunity and liberty for all, not just a select few. He consistently helps Jim, despite the fact that he is a black man. Huck risks his life and freedom to help the runaway slave Jim, he saves his life on the raft and he helps him escape from capture on numerous occasions. This act of leaving with Jim shows how Huck really cares for his well being, unlike Tom who was just so caught up in the fun of the action.
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