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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Rhetorical Analysis

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Mark Twain wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for a reason. He wanted to make a book with a serious tone that would still be entertaining. He wanted to be able to talk about serious issues, such as race relations, in a way that is enjoyable to read. He had already written about Tom Sawyer's story and now he wanted to write about Huck Finn. He wanted the audience to be entertained and socially aware at the same time.

The intended audience for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is pertinent to the time period it was written in. I think he intended on having racist men read it and hopefully their view would change. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written a few years after the civil war ended when the effects of slavery were still present. Reconstruction was happening, they were trying to integrate freed slaves, but it wasn't working out as planned. Racist people were trying to exclude freed slaves. I feel that Mark Twain wanted those people to read it and change their minds, like Huck Finn did with Jim. The reader's perspective has changed from then to now because people have different life experiences and are hoping Jim becomes free. …show more content…

One of the tricks Mark Twain used in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is similes. Similes are when two unlike things are compared to each other using like or as. Mark Twain used similes in sentences such as, "I reckon I shook like a leaf" (p. 45). He compares Huck being scared to a leaf shaking in the wind. The simile affected the reader by then being able to picture how scared Huck was in that moment. Similes added to Twain's

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