The Great Importance of the Final Episode of Huckleberry Finn
One of the things many critics of Huckleberry Finn just can't
seem to understand is the final episode of the novel where Tom returns
and sidetracks Huck from his rescue of Jim through a long series of
silly, boyish plans based on ideas Tom has picked up from Romantic novels,
such as those of Walter Scott. Critic Stephen Railton dismisses these
final chapters as "just another version of their Royal Nonesuch" (405);
referring, of course, to the silly play put on by the Duke and Dauphin in
chapter 23. From one point of view, this whole "evasion" sequence seems
funny and humorous in the traditions of frontier and southwestern humor. Twain
had a reputation as a humorist, and some of his readers got a big laugh
out of this section.
Many, however, are put off by it; think it seems out of place in
this novel which deals with so many serious, adult subjects; who's theme
is man's inhumanity toward man but still able to be surpassed by the
simple friendship developed between a white boy and a Black slave
on a raft. To many, who don't look too deeply, this final episode seems
out of place, anticlimactical, undermining, or just downright abhorrent.
Philip Young called the ending "irrelevant" (Gullason 357). Leo Marx
called it a "flimsy contrivance" (Gullason 357). And William Van
O'Connor called it "a serious anti-climax" (Gullason 357). That's just a
small sampling.
But can it really be just some silly nonsense, some "Royal
Nonesuch"? Can we really think so little of Twain to believe that he would just
abandon the seriousness of ...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain during the late 1800’s (Mintz). The book brought major controversy over the plot, as well as the fact that it was a spin-off to his previous story, Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This book has remained a success due to Twain’s interesting techniques of keeping the audience’s attention. Chapters eleven and twelve of “Huckleberry Finn,” uses a first person limited point of view to take advantage of the use of dialogue while using many hyperboles to add drama to entertain the reader by creating description within the story without needing to pause and explain.
Abby Gross Mr. Bruneel AP Lang- Period 7 10 April 2014 Exploring Censorship of Twain’s Great American Novel: A Literary Critique To delve into a topic as serious as book censorship, one must first determine the purpose of reading, of literature in general. Blahblahblah (what Ms Buckingham said).
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