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Huckleberry Finn Map
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Preface
¨Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot¨(Twain 1).
Preface
Realism
Realism is a phiological theory in which readers are forced to see the events as they are happening with no ¨sugar-coating¨ of any of the details. “REALISTS center their attention to a remarkable degree on the immediate, the here and now, the specific action, and the verifiable consequence”
(A Handbook to Literature 428). Also, realism used characters to make comments on the social and political issues of the time.
Realism
Alone in the Woods
Pap Finn is a very large incluence in Hucks life. Pap says ¨Don’t you give me none o’ your lip. . . . You’ve put on considerable many frills since I been away. I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t? I’ll take it out of you. Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut’n foolishness, hey?—who told you you could¨(Twain 22)?
Influence 1
Explaination
Explanation
Pap Finn is a drunkard who is the father of Huck and by forcing Huck to stay with him in his cabin in the woods, makes Huck feel that he needs to run away. Without the influence of Pap being such a bad dad, Huck would have never felt the need to run away and none of the rest of the story down the Mississippi river would have happened. Twain uses Pap Finn to comment on his dislike of drunk people during this time period showing the realist in Twains writing.
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Preaching Reform
Widow Douglas is another very influential person in Hucks life. In chapter 1 Huck says ¨The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer, I lit out¨(Twain 1).
Influence 2
Huck is largly influenced by the Widow because he continually refuses to accept her teachings. She is trying to force Huck to become a better person and he does not want to change. This leads to him running away and faking his own death just so that she will not try to ¨fix¨ him anymore. Through the character Widow Douglas, Twain is commenting on civilization and respectable actions. Huck refulas to accept her teaching are showing us that Twain does not belive in forcing others to change. Twain is also showing us these decisions in the moment and not thinking how they could affect the future. Realist authors such as Twain focus on the immediate actions and consequences rather than looking down the road.
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Floating to Freedom
The raft is another influential place to Huck. Huck describes the raft as ¨We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft¨(Twain 105).
Floating down the river on the Raft with Jim, Huck realizes just how peaceful life can be when you are free. There is no one telling him what he must do and no one holding him back from doing as he pleases. The raft is a constant reminder to Huck to what life is like when you are truly free. Twain shows realism through the raft by telling readers that Huck only feels truly safe when he is on the raft. Twain is showing readers reality as it happens around Huck.
Influence 3
Runaway Fugative
Jim has a large impact of Huck decisions throughout the story. Jim is a great friend to Huck and says ¨Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck? En you ain’ dead – you ain’ drownded – you’s back agin? It’s too good for true, honey, it’s too good for true. Lemme look at you chile, lemme feel o’ you. No, you ain’ dead! you’s back agin, ‘live en soun’, jis de same ole Huck – de same ole Huck, thanks to goodness¨(Twain 75)!
Jim and Huck are great friends and compliment each other very well on their adventures. Jim influences Huck in mostly positive ways. Jim and Huck are no longer lonely as they have each other and between the 2 of them they can usually make the right choice when it comes to the decisions that they are forced to make. Twain uses Jim to show the ¨stupidity¨ that most slaves had during this time period. By including Jim´s dialect, Twain is creating a very accurate and real picture of what life was like during this time period. He is giving readers a lack of imagry and is not sugar-coating any of the events that happen. They are all layed out for us readers to interperet for ourselves.
Influence 4
Back From The Dead
Tom Sawyer is another big influence on Huck. He says to Huck in chatper 3 ¨Shucks, it ain’t no use to talk to you, Huck Finn. You don’t seem to know anything, somehow – perfect saphead¨(Twain 13).
Tom influences Huck even when he is not with him. Huck really looks up to Tom as a friend and a mentor. Whatever Tom says it seems that Huck will do it. For example, instead of just simply breaking Jim out of the barn where he was being held, they came up with a grand plan which overcomplicated and made everything more dangerous. Twain uses Tom to comment his thought on people that were overexagerating everything. He shows the immediate consequences for these actions including getting Tom shot because of their ¨grand¨ plan.