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Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. I decided to be upfront with my passion:. It is incredible. I know it is hard to get through the old-fashioned dialogue, but it is really worth it. This book can change your life.
They were not very far into the novel—just far enough to be skeptical. One student raised her hand. I was elated that my bold display of personal investment had instantly produced a result. Clearly, I was a good teacher: I knew that opening up as a person would help me connect with my students, all of whom were not only significantly younger than me of course , but from completely different cultural backgrounds.
I decided it was time for quiet reading. Twain would have to convince them on his own. I truly love Mark Twain. He is, and has been since I was a teenager, one of my favorite authors. I do still tell this to my students—I am unabashed in trying to convince them that, despite language they may find awkward, insulting, or confusing, his novels are some of the most compelling and powerful works they will encounter. In this post, we want to explore the motives of the supportive camp.
In the first book, the protagonist is Tom, who lives in the fictitious town of St. Petersburg inspired by the real city of Hannibal, Missouri on the Mississippi river in the s.
Petersburg in total freedom. He is obviously the envy of all the other kids in the region. At the end of the book, after taking part in a number of adventures throughout the narrative, Tom and Huck get rich, having discovered a great amount of money stolen and hidden in a cave by a gang of robbers. He finds the clothes uncomfortable, the table manners constrictive, and the school lessons boring. Huck is forced to live with him in a shack across the river. Huck realizes he has no choice: he must either submit to living with his abusive father or go back to the horrors of the so-called civilized life under the righteous wing of Widow Douglas.
So he decides to fake his own murder and run away. They get a raft and start floating down the Mississippi river on their way to freedom. Wherever that may be. The novel is the story of that journey. The motif of man in close contact with water — be it sea or river — and its associated subconscious meanings is common in Western literature take Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, The Old Man and the Sea, and Life of Pi , for example.
Life on the raft sums up the benefits and downsides of freedom wild, unconfined and dangerous , in contrast to the oppressive civilized life Huck got to know for a while. With The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , for the first time North American literature breaks away from the limitations of formal and pompous language. The story is told by Huck in his own particular vernacular, which replicates oral language.
Ungrammatical sentences and misspellings highlight the expressive force and energy of regional dialects.
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