The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Critique :: Free Essays

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CritiqueBiography     Mark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens, was, as a literary writer,a genius. His use of numerous literary devices throughout the refreshful are quiteunique. Examples of them would be, irony     "Here was a nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming     right out and express that he would steal his children - children thatbelonged to someone that had done me no harm." p. 88 and colloquialenunciationI ast m if dey uz gwyne to grab a young white genlmans propaty,     en git a hidin for it?" p. 112     Samuel Clemens was a very controversial writer in his time. Although hewas fiercely criticized, he was among the first writers to incorporate viewsother than that of a reverential main character into his stories, and he wasalso a original user of colloquial enunciation.Plot SynopsisThe plot is, as th e entitle suggests, about the adventures of an unruly andcarefree boy named Huckleberry Finn. The novel depicts the 1900s southern amicable climate in a manner that is not only satirical, just psychoanalyticallyintuitive. In it, Huck, as he is commonly known, runs away with a break ones back namedJim. As they travel along the Mississippi river, in the southern neighborhood of theUnited States, they undergo many extraordinary adventures.Analysis     One of the closely predominant themes in this novel is that of deception.Deception, in one form or another, is used with an avid consistency throughoutthe story. Two personifications of deception were the characters, tycoon and Duke.They were "entrepreneurs" of deception (which is a polite way of sayinghustlers). Samuel Clemens writes about them so ingeniously, that after a whilethe reader is able to understand the true(p) nature of these tricksters, and thatmost of what they utter is either fabrication o r a twisted truth.