In truth, it's not exactly a book at all. The Huck Finn we know is actually just the surviving vestige of a multimedia project, a century ahead of its time, and absolutely groundbreaking: "a new kind of entertainment," The Washington Post wrote. Akin to modern movie releases, Twain planned to release a "game" for children alongside Huck Finn.
And he invented what might be regarded as the modern book tour to promote it. Or the modern rock tour, as he and author George Washington Cable traveled as the "Twins of Genius," and alongside readings from their books performed songs and stories they took from African-American sources, and performed with such Elvis-like verve that young women "blushed" and "fainted.
You can still see bits and pieces of these performances in the book: humor sketches written in homage to the minstrel shows of Twain's youth that point to modern banter comedy; music scenes where working class whites "pat juba" or dance "breakdowns" -- 19th-century equivalents of white hip-hop performers like Macklemore and Lewis or Iggy Azalea, both stealing and paying homage to black culture.
And if it is a book, it wasn't meant for the classroom. If you could tell Twain that his book would sell over 20 million copies in the 20th century, he'd probably be delighted.
But if you told him Huck Finn was mandatory reading in most American schools, he might remind you that he taught his own children to read in English by forbidding them to do so, making books a secret and coveted pleasure. Huck Finn was never meant to be a dusty classic palmed diffidently by teenagers between the hours of nine and three.
But contemporary young adult fiction, everything from Harry Potter to Diary of a Wimpy Kid , the books our children devour for pleasure, would be unthinkable without its innovations.
And while it might be a "boy's book," girls had more to do with it than most readers recognize. Huck and Tom are widely regarded as archetypal American boys -- but they might have some real girls as inspiration. Twain and his wife Olivia raised three girls as he wrote Huck Finn. And Twain took careful notes about how they played, how they talked, how they worshipped, and all of this turns up in the pages of his greatest novel, making it a study of children in general, and not just a "boy's book.
Despite its status as an official American icon, Huck Finn has long been an "unofficial" player in both national and world politics, on all sides. Huck Finn embodies what life was like in the antebellum south with its diction of various dialects and curse words and plot of Jim trying to escape slavery.
While Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, the book itself was published after the war, right around when Jim Crow laws were coming into effect. These books have made an impact on American Literature since they were first written. Both slavery and child abuse are illegal and punishable with prison. These two problems are archaic in the United States because the general public already views them as immoral. The current generation faces every day problems with racism.
Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn for short has had plenty of controversy since the book was first published. Many people believe that because of the words Twain used in the book many people blatantly believe that the book Huck Finn is racist.
Since the book was First Published people have been trying to ban and not allow people to read Huck Finn. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn be banned? Since the early ages of literature, there have been works of literature that have been considered controversial because of the content, as some believe they are offensive or inappropriate. Salinger are just two works of literature that have sparked major controversy. Despite this, there is much evidence in the text to suggest that Twain published the book to fight racial prejudice.
As this novel was written. Many people all over the world, predominantly the African-American population, feel that the word demoralizes the Blacks, and feel that the novel should be strongly censored from society. The revolutionary ideas of The Age of Enlightenment such as democracy and universal male suffrage were finally becoming a reality to the philosophers and scholars that so elegantly dreamt of them. America was a playground for the ideas of these enlightened men.
To Europeans. Numerous authors use the same denotations to illustrate different thoughts or ideas. Mark Twain uses various symbols, such as the river and the land to expose freedom and trouble in his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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