The main work of Mark Twain is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" written in 1885. This novel has the broadest aspect of the impact: it talks about democracy and humanity. These properties became fundamental for the American literature of XX century, so Mark Twain served as an example for the future writers.
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has the same characters and the same time as in the "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" . But this novel reveals a more mature attitude of the author, it covers all parts of human experience, and has a more profound importance union.
The essayist came back to his most loved and more than once demonstrated type of portrayal in the principal individual, and made a destitute tramp the principle legend. It has a twofold impact. Firstly, stunningly imitated, solid and brilliant, really national dialect in which the book is composed, gives a photo of American life uncommon plastic expression, makes the impression of a discussion "without an arbiter" - as though his own voice talked about America. Secondly, it iss conceivable to uncover all the more completely and all the more profoundly the character, just quickly sketched out in the past book and show the formation of his personality (Brown, "American Heritage.").
Huck's mind is free from romantic clichés. He has no outer apparent ethics, yet he has all the crucial qualities. Nature gave him a strong unwavering heart, that is interested in all mortified and dismissing shameless power. Huck has a feeling of inward autonomy, constraining him to escape from the joy and solace that the dowager of Douglas offers him, in a debilitating world. His adoration for flexibility is a dismissal of affectation, philistine success and systematized lies.
Compared to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", the character of Huck acquires a new property - common boldness. From the main sections, Twain makes Huck a dynamic member in the social clash. He is the guard and concealer of a runaway slave. He hazards losing his own flexibility to spare Jim from the slavers. In any case, Twain brings up that the need of the battle for flexibility of Jim as organically inherent to Huck as hatred to everything that hampers him. Huck’s fight for social justice gives his rebellion much more profound social meaning (Gillespie, "Mark Twain vs. Tom Sawyer.").
The Huck’s character is given being developed, and this improvement is unmistakably roused. Huck was developed in the South, where bondage forces its engraving on the reasoning of any white man. He wade through the shrubbery of slaveholding biases in his own mind with great difficulty, until the man finally wins a southerner in his mind, until he at last chooses to stay consistent with Jim. Twain never separates the hero from the environment and at the same time shows a constant state of struggle against prejudice of that environment. The rationalistic inconsistency that lies at the premise of the picture, makes him especially vivid and dynamic, gives him a psychological authenticity (Leonard, Thomas and Thadious 14)
The image of overflowing Mississippi River not only combines the action, but in contrast emphasizes the meanness and meaninglessness of human passions and ambitions: pictures follow one another, and the river continues to slowly roll its waters for vast expanses of America. The river defines the Huck’s state of mind – it blows his anxiety, gives him peace and wisdom. The image of the great river embodies the freedom, that is the most important thing for the main characters ("Mark Twain.").
The internal spring of the novel is Jim and Huck's escape from slave states and their journey on a raft down the river in search of freedom. Their escape shows us the brodart picture of American life. The story tells about the apathy and sadism, weakness of the ctowd, that sees the lynching process, merchants’ fraud and so on. Throughout these trials and adventurers, young boy named Huck becomes a real man with true objects of value. Thus, Huck Finn, despite his age, often acts like an adult. This hero is practical and self-sufficient, he has never lost his presence of mind. He is loyal to his friends and he judges people by their qualities and he, despite the difficult circumstances, always is on the side of the Good. Indeed, he can catch and cook fish in the river, can even kill a wild pig in the forest. Clearly and deliberately, as an adult, the hero acts his death to get away from his father. And later, when he began his adventure on a raft, Huck often makes adults actions. And this applies not only to his common behavior, but it also applies to more serious cases.
Mark Twain recounted the narrative of freedom and slavery, death and resurrection -Huck keenly faked his own passing to run from his dad. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is not just about the authorized slavery, it is additionally about the absence of opportunity of the white man, oppressed by social traditions and biases, not just about the "recovery" of Huck after his faked death, additionally about the genuine birth of his identity, which increased passionate expansiveness. Huck shows us that the freedom is the most significant thing in our life. Freedom is connected with the river but not with the North or South.
Works Cited
Leonard, J. S., Thomas Asa. Tenney, and Thadious M. Davis. Satire or Evasion?: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn. Durham: Duke UP, 1992. Print.
Brown, Robert B. "American Heritage." One Hundred Years Of Huck Finn. July 1984. Web. 29 Apr. 2016.
Gillespie, Nick. "Mark Twain vs. Tom Sawyer." Reason.com. 01 Feb. 2006. Web. 29 Apr. 2016.
"Mark Twain." Hannibal.net | The Hannibal Courier-Post. Web. 29 Apr. 2016.
