![]() ![]() Winning an honor or feeling the loss of honor is another thematic strand of the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck also confronts his own community to abolish slavery because of its hypocrisy in the cultured life. Moreover, it is his natural behavior that he becomes Jim’s friend. Huck knows that Widow Douglas wants to make him a civilized young man, but it is at the expense of the loss of his true nature. ![]() ![]() He has seen the natural behavior of his father under intoxication and tolerated violence. His desire to be free is a way of civilization because he has been raised without discipline at home. Huckleberry Finn and his life present a natural lifestyle through his independence, uncultured manners, and plain behavior. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.Conflict between Natural and Cultured LifeĪ conflictual relationship between natural and cultured lifestyle is the major theme of the novel. The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in America for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood".It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.Ĭommonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. ![]()
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