Check out the Intro to Huck Finn on Shmoop and read about it's relevancy and importance. Here are my summary notes of of it's legacy, controversy, themes, unique genre, and satire. Legacy: “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” ~Ernest Hemingway Controversy: How Twain deals with the slavery issue; “n” word used 215 times Themes: freedom from bondage from: slavery, politics, institutions, religion, biology, psychology, morality, false ideals/realities, group pressures, mobs, prejudice, animal appetite, snobbery, greed, vindictiveness, fear, cruelty Genre: picaresque: humorous adventure in which main character outwits corrupted influences Satire: uses humor, sarcasm, irony to criticize society Mark Twain blew people away with this piece of literature. What made it so important to the times? What is it's substance? Why do we read it today? After doing your research, summarize your ideas in 7-10 sentences.
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Samantha Diebolt
9/17/2016 08:43:39 pm
Mark Twain wrote about big events that were going on or that had happened. They were all things that he felt strongly about. I think this is how Mark Twain voiced his opinion. He just needed a way to express himself so this is how he decided to do so. Mark Twain wrote about slavery, civil war and civil disputes. Mark Twain usually had a common topic of freedom and liberty. He wanted people to be treated fairly. He used vivid imagery and sometimes humor to get his point across.
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RicardoEspinoza
2/9/2018 03:42:58 pm
Huckleberry Finn is a really important and good piece of literature today. It focuses on a dark period of slavery in the United States. It also takes on the important issues of child abuse and moral human rights.Huckleberry Finn’s dad is a mean drunk so he runs away , and gets to know a runaway slave named Jim.This book shows us what it means to be human.It is tought today to keep things from happening like they did in the 70’s
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Hannah Lussier
10/15/2018 12:47:01 pm
Huckleberry fin is known as a important story today. It brings dark times to light, for example it took on the issues of child abuse and human rights. It also focused on the period of slavery in the United States. This book shows a lot of what’s its like to be human and have morals. Things were a lot different now then they were then in the 70’s.
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Hunter Caceres
10/15/2018 12:51:22 pm
Mark Twain is a very influential person today. His books and the literature that he wrote had influenced society in many ways. He could have influenced political views at the time and change history. Huckleberry Finn is a real good book, it has slavery, child abuse, adultery all the real problems in life. His dad was an abusive drunk, ran away with a slave named Jim and had many adventures that shaped him into being the person he is.
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Julianna Cavarretta
11/1/2018 10:16:20 am
Mark Twain's, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was such a controversial story due to the fact that it questioned widely accepted moral values. Making Mark Twain an extremely influential writer, and one of the many reasons we still study his work today. His story, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' talks about many themes such as; slavery, laws, and moral values. Discussing these topics tends to shed light on the evilness of humanity, causing backlash and criticism against the author. Ultimately these accounts heavily shape the world's culture and cannot be hushed. That's another reason why Mark Twain is still studied today.
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genet carter
11/9/2018 01:06:26 pm
The book helped show the extent of racism at that time. We read it now to help us understand the times. The book also has powerful morals and lessons, that were profound at the time, and now considered an everyday part of life. The book also gives views into the moral justifications and social classes of that time. The group and community "bullying", the unity in putting others down or hurting them is an astonishing pattern that was seen completely okay.
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Genet Carter
12/4/2018 02:20:15 pm
Mark Twain’s huckleberry Finn, is a tale describing morals, values, and ideas of a time period that revolves around inherit rights people have. The profound ideas that came from that time changed the world and built our nation. Slavery, racism, and discrimination where the backbone of the nation then. This book is still read today, as it gives insight on history, and shows moral values, that teach us, how to be the best person you can when you can be punished or hurt for it.
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sergio
9/23/2022 10:01:45 am
Mark twains Huckle berry fin is a great story about a time where slavery was still around in the united states. it is about what is the right thing to do what are your true morals , even though the right thing to do is against society’s and the law and you can still be punished so what will you do so
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