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Huckleberry Finn Literary Analysis Essay

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Mark Twain Literary Analysis Essay In the nineteenth century, the word “huckleberry” was used to describe an unimportant person or event. The main character in Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is Huckleberry, and Huckleberry is depicted as an unimportant person and you can see this in the way people treat him and his situation. Twain demonstrates elements of Realism by mimicking the ethical struggles and social issues which were relevant to the time period in which this book was set. Although Huckleberry is the main character in Twain’s novel, he is portrayed as insignificant. One situation where Huck is treated as though he isn’t important is when Miss Watson and Judge Thatcher try taking away Pap’s custody over Huck, he explains how “The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn’t know the old man; so he said courts mustn’t interfere and separate families if they could help it, said he’d druther not take a …show more content…

The main way Twain demonstrates Realism is by focusing on social issues and ethical struggles, he does this by emphasizing characters from different social classes and uses different dialects to reveal class distinctions. Jim shows his position in the lower class when he tells Huck he “hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans”(15). Jim is a slave and he’s the lowest in the social class, he doesn’t get an education and Twain shows this by the dialect. Twain shows the social issues when Jim talks about how Miss Watson wanted to sell him, he describes how “she could git eight hund’d dollars for me, en it ‘uz sich a big stack o’money she couln’t resis’”(15). Miss Watson clearly cares about the money more than she cares about Jim. Twain demonstrates social classes and how slaves, like Jim, were treated more like objects rather than

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