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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884),
Mark Twain
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“ Human beings can be awful cruel to one
another”
With little history to speak of and little literary
tradition to anchor it in, 19th century writers
set about mirroring the rapidly changing
and complex populations of their nation.
One author led the way, setting his story in
the Mississippi Valley in the Midwest, with
a white boy as the protagonist and narrator.
Mark Twain recounts the adventures of
Huckleberry Finn in a regional dialect, filled
with philosophical insights and wisdom, he
became one of the first and most important
authentic voices in American literature.
This work allowed the next generations of
writers in the country to move literature from
the New England colonies to their homeland,
giving it local color and vernacular speech.
But the frankness of its protagonist is also
notable. The novel was published after the
Civil War (1861-1865), but it is 40 or 50 years
earlier, when slavery still existed in the South
and pioneers were looking for land in the
West. Huck’s innocent thoughts reflect many
contradictions in American society.
As the story begins, Huckleberry introduces
himself to readers as a supporting character in
an earlier Mark Twain novel, The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer, giving the story credibility.
Huck pretends to be dead fleeing the
aggressiveness of his father and the people of
Missouri, and thus begins a boat trip through
Mississippi, but he does not go alone, in the
boat also Jim, a runaway slave. While they
were advancing towards the south, when
arriving at the shore, they realize that in
reality in the towns the reality of a justice is
lived in which criminal gangs and cheats who
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win over the people rule, there, a young man
who engaged friendship with Huck is killed
in a family revenge.
In a text bathed in the offensive word “nigger”,
the other version is reflected through the
dialogues between Jim and Huck. Fresh from
his mistress, who was going to sell it, Jim
finally says to himself: “Yes; In I’s rich now,
come to look at it. I owns mysef, in I’s wuth
eight hund’d dollars. I wish I had the money, I
wouldn’t ’want no mo’. ”
far from the social order, this beautiful
friendship is born. Later, when Huck struggles
with the southern ideology that demands him
to hand Jim over, he can only remember him
as a friend: “And got to thinking over our trip
down the river; and I see Jim before me all
the time: in the day and in the night-time,
sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms,
and we a-floating along, talking and singing
and laughing.
But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no
places to harden me against him, but only
the other kind. ” So by the time Tom Sawyer,
protagonist of Twain’s previous novel
enters the scene, Huckleberry’s emotional
development is almost complete.
Despite being branded “vulgar” when
published in 1884, this book introduced a
new style and color into American literature.
American voices ranged through novels like
The Grapes of Wrath and even much more
recent works like The Boys.
We are currently living in a situation where
discrimination and racial abuse are affecting
our society, we have seen in the news how
all African Americans are fighting not to be
mistreated and discriminated against. This
and many other works make us see that this
mistreatment of these people has always
existed, and we must remember that beyond
their race, they are people and deserve
respect and justice.
Sarah Gómez
Grado: Décimo
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