Language and Dialect in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's use of language and dialect in the book "Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn" helped him to bring about the overall feel that he
conveyed throughout the book, allowing him to show Huck Finn's attitudes
and beliefs concerning the nature of education, slavery, and family values.
When the story begins, Huck is seen as a young boy who is not very
educated nor wishes to be. He does not seem to care very much for the
attention that is given to him by the Widow Douglas, who had taken him in
for her son, and her sister, Miss Watson. Huck's moral values were not only
the product of his ignorance, but there is relation seen between Huck's
attitude and the attitude of his father when Huck is confronted by him.
Huck's father is disgusted at the way that Huck seems to be becoming more
and more civilized. He states "...they say you can read and write. You
think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can't?"
Perhaps this statement shows disgust in Huck through not following the
moral values of his father, or perhaps this is just merely jealousy on his
father's part. Huck's father warns Huck about going to school any more, yet
Huck goes anyway, showing great willpower in the character of Huck in that
he was gaining an education that he never really wanted in the first place,
but soon came to realize that it was something actually useful, and in the
fact that he was disobeying his father's orders.
Huck's feelings about slavery are shown when he helps Jim, Miss
Watson's slave, to escape. Huck's constant statement that "Jim talks like
he is white inside" shows that Huck was unique amongst the society in which
he lived in the fact that he saw beneath the color of a person's skin and
saw the person that was truly there. Jim seems to be the only person that
Huck can trust other than Tom Saywer, Huck's best friend. Huck Finn felt
that slavery was a cruel injustice because he had gotten to know Jim and
found out that there was more to him than just being a slave. Huck had
found that Jim was a human being just like himself.
Huck’s situation is so extreme (the mental and physical abuse from Pap) that he cannot take it anymore. He does what he thinks is best; Huck listens to heart rather than his conscience. In order to get away from Pap, Huck organizes an elaborate plan to arrange his own death and run away – both denounced by society - from the prison cell (cabin) and Pap. Huck, for the first time in his life, had felt what it is like to be free: “The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before” (Twain 46).
Huck would try and be a rebel because he had no male to tell him right from wrong. If Huck needed help the only real person that he could talk to would be Tom Sawyer, a very good friend also a thief, a rebel, and he lived on his own. Tom was not that great of a role model, for a young boy like Huck. His father was always away, and never there for him, and when he was around he was always drunk. It is hard enough to talk to a drunk man let alone when you have a problem and need advice. The childhood of a young boy is very crucial in what he will be like in his own life.
In the beginning of the novel, Huck tends to have an immature side to him. There are some things in the beginning that show that Huck still has a very childish side to him. "They get down on one thing when they don't know nothing about it." (Twain 2) This is showing the ignorance and stubbornness that all children experience throughout life. He thinks as if everything he does is right and everyone else is wrong. "That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it." (Twain 40) This goes one step further. This shows Huck's Immaturity and Stupidity gone one step too far when he puts the snake in Jim's bed and he ends up getting bit by it. If Huck was more mature and less childish he wouldn't have been playing this so called joke on Jim. Huck learns that jokes have a limit to them at times and need to be thought out more clearly.
Growing up in civilization, Huck had recognized owning a slave as a societal norm. He slowly begins to realize the impact of society, on slaves and slaveholders. The more analyzation of the situation, the less comprehensible slavery became, and light was shown on the evils around it. Moral confusion ensues as those who seem to be kind and heaven bound, such as Miss. Watson and Sally Phelps, are oblivious to the inhumane injustice done to Jim and all of those enslaved. In this instance, Huck Finn has a more sound idea of morality than the adults in his life. During Huck’s impersonation of Tom, he is asked why he was delayed replying that a cylinder on a steamboat had blown up. When asked if anyone had been hurt, he comments that a “ni**er” has been killed. Sally then disregards this as a human life, and responds “Well
...ays a sense of maturity. In addition to this, Huck was able to create his own morals rather than the ones given to him by society enabling him to conceive his own identity.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is an immensely realistic novel, revealing how a child's morals and actions clash with those of the society around him. Twain shows realism in almost every aspect of his writing; the description of the setting, that of the characters, and even the way characters speak. Twain also satirizes many of the foundations of that society. Showing the hypocrisy of people involved in education, religion, and romanticism through absurd, yet very real examples. Most importantly, Twain shows the way Huckleberry's moral beliefs form amidst a time of uncertainty in his life.
...lavery” and face the punishment for helping Jim, when he was actually doing the right thing (250). Huck learns to love Jim, despite his differences, and goes against what society thinks because he knows what is best for others, especially his friends.
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