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David Arrizon
Honors English 6
11.24.2003
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
Twain was a Realist and strongly disliked Romanics (i.e. Walter Scott). Published in 1885 at the end of romanticism and the rise of realism. Takes place before the Civil War (1835/1845). Starts in St. Petersburg, Missouri
Major Characters:
" Huckleberry Finn: The protagonist of the novel. Simply put he is poor, white trash. He is constantly abused by his drunken father. He prefers living in the woods to being in a home, and he doesn't think much of school, religious training, or being "sivilized" He is mostly a good boy, but can be a first-class liar when in a pinch. He thinks of himself as a bad person because he believes being good means being educated and religious. He learns to think of others before himself.
"Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad but I didn't mean no harm." (Twain 2)
"All right, then, I'll go to hell' and tore it up." (214)
" Jim: Jim is a slave owned by Miss Watson. He has a wife and small children, and the threat of being separated from them frightens him enough to make him run away from his owner before she can sell him to a southern slave trader. He is highly superstitious; at times he acts like a child, more so than Huck. Later we see Jim's true side, capable of very deep feeling. Twain uses Jim to shows the evils of slavery.
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Honors English 6
11.24.2003
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
Twain was a Realist and strongly disliked Romanics (i.e. Walter Scott). Published in 1885 at the end of romanticism and the rise of realism. Takes place before the Civil War (1835/1845). Starts in St. Petersburg, Missouri
Major Characters:
" Huckleberry Finn: The protagonist of the novel. Simply put he is poor, white trash. He is constantly abused by his drunken father. He prefers living in the woods to being in a home, and he doesn't think much of school, religious training, or being "sivilized" He is mostly a good boy, but can be a first-class liar when in a pinch. He thinks of himself as a bad person because he believes being good means being educated and religious. He learns to think of others before himself.
"Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad but I didn't mean no harm." (Twain 2)
"All right, then, I'll go to hell' and tore it up." (214)
" Jim: Jim is a slave owned by Miss Watson. He has a wife and small children, and the threat of being separated from them frightens him enough to make him run away from his owner before she can sell him to a southern slave trader. He is highly superstitious; at times he acts like a child, more so than Huck. Later we see Jim's true side, capable of very deep feeling. Twain uses Jim to shows the evils of slavery.
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