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Huckleberry Finn

Huck Finn Chapter 1-9 Summary

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Summary for Chapter 1-9 Chapter One In Chapter 1 of ?Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,? Mark Twain gives background on who Huck is and how one may have read about him in ?The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,? Twain?s other novel. Twain goes on to explain who Huck is, and how him and Tom Sawyer had previously found $12,000, making them both extremely rich. Tom and Huck both gave Judge. Thatcher their money for protecting. Huck lives with ?the widow? (aka Widow Douglas), and her sister Miss. Watson, who Huck does not like very much because she tries to enforce manners and school on him. Throughout Huck?s life ,with the widow and Miss. Watson, he is taught about religion and important religious figures such as Moses. However, after Huck realizes that Moses is dead, he

Mark Twain's Satirical Tongue

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Mark Twain was way ahead of his time in much of his writings. Though he didn’t flat-out say it, early in the novel, Twain sent the reader the message that the color of your skin is not what makes you a good or a bad person. Huckleberry Finn’s father, Pap, is hands down the worst man in Huck’s town, yet ironically he feels the need to hate on every black person that walks by. Twain shows his hidden opinion to the reader in the way that Pap talks about the black professor who had visited their town… “Here’s a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet’s got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a-hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger….” (38)

Mark Twain's Satirical Tongue

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Mark Twain was way ahead of his time in much of his writings. Though he didn’t flat-out say it, early in the novel, Twain sent the reader the message that the color of your skin is not what makes you a good or a bad person. Huckleberry Finn’s father, Pap, is hands down the worst man in Huck’s town, yet ironically he feels the need to hate on every black person that walks by. Twain shows his hidden opinion to the reader in the way that Pap talks about the black professor who had visited their town… “Here’s a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet’s got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a-hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger….” (38)

Huckleberry Finn- Opening Lines

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The first line of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn captures the book in its raw essence. It begins as the narrator, later identified to be Huckleberry Finn, opens with a statement that blatantly says that we may know of him from another book. From the opening pages, the audience feels the omnipresence of both Huck?s narrative voice and Twain?s voice as author. It introduces Huck in a colloquial, friendly manner and after continuing we see that when Huck refers to the author as ?Mr. Mark Twain?, forming a separation between the two different narrators and another between Twain?s previous The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the object novel.
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