The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Analysis
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn AnalysisIn the story ” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, the author’s technique of writing proves him to be a true master of regional writing. Twain explores the different areas of regionalism using a great amount of detail in the novel. Some of the main aspects of regionalism that he writes about include the environment, the society, and the different superstitions that were believed to be true at the time.
A way Mark Twain demonstrates regionalism is through his geographic descriptions, in which a person can actually visualize exactly what he is saying. Throughout the majority of the story, Huck and Jim spend an abundant amount of time on the Mississippi River. Each time they are on the river, Twain focuses on vividly describing it. For example, in chapter nine, Huck talks about how it rained for days and the river rose until it was over the banks. He then proceeded to talk about how they paddled all over the island. He describes things they saw while paddling over the island. “We went winding in and out amongst the trees, and sometimes the vines hung so thick we had to back away and go some other way. Well, on every old broken-down tree you could see rabbits and snakes and such things; and when the island had been overflowed a day or two they got so tame, on account of being hungry, that you could paddle right up and put your hand on them if you wanted to.” The description that Huck gives makes it easy to mentally picture a canoe rowing through a thick forest, surrounded by animals, trees, and vines. I can easily tell that island was very flooded, so flooded that the animals could not get food.
In the novel, Mark Twain writes about many different superstitions that were believed by black and white people. Jim is a black character in the story that bases his life around superstitions. Jim discussed numerous amounts of superstitions with Huck throughout the story. Among them was the snake skin superstition in chapter ten. At the beginning of the chapter Huck questions Jim’s snake skin theory. Huck had found some snake skin and Jim was worried about the two of them having “ the worst bad luck in the world”, because according to Jim a person should never touch snake skin. Huck argued with him about this, but sure enough, the bad luck caught up to them. Jim ended up getting bit by a snake. The bad luck from the snakeskin did not end there. It is mentioned throughout the entire novel. Another superstition mentioned by Jim earlier in the story is his magic hairball. “ Jim, had a hairball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth...
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