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Huckleberry Finn Analysis

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Mark Twain, otherwise known as Samuel Clemens, illustrates his characters and their relationships with pinpoint accuracy in his picaresque fictional novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn comes from an abusive father who often is drunk. Finn was taken away from his father and began living in a civilized home with Miss Watson. The author suggests that Huckleberry Finn is not attached to any of his friends or family, and is more of a lone-wolf. The lone wolf idea is created by the author’s use of diction, hyperboles, and parallel structure. Illustrating Huckleberry Finn as independent enables the story for the main character to travel on his adventure without dependency on others. Mark Twain begins by utilizing certain diction to show how Huckleberry Finn changes his mind and feelings about family spontaneously. Every few days after school, Pap, Huck’s abusive father catches the boy and threatens him, “[he] thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and dodged him or outrun him most of the time…” (lines 1-2). Twain uses negatively connotative words similar to ‘thrashed’ when Huck Finn is interacting with his father to indicate their relationship. After Huck’s failing effort to avoid his father, Pap kidnaps his son and takes him to a cabin, and later Huck admits, “It was pretty good times up in the woods there, take it all around” (line 22). The word choice shows that Finn has a change of heart towards his father and considers his alliance/home is in the

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