As Mark Twain composed "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," he implicitly amplified the setting to be more that an average backdrop for the characters to interact in. ... The colloquial diction applied in this section of the text brings out the realism in the Southern environment in this era of the passage. ... To conclude, Twain's use of diction in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, highlights the questionable ethics of Southerners, and creates the ideal setting with the use of colloquial and political diction to emphasize them. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These three themes have changed and developed throughout the course of American Literature, it can be seen most profoundly in rationalism, realism, and modernism. ... Next, realism was a time period that showed The American Dream through nonconformity and independence in a new way. ... In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain shows the relationship between a young boy, Huckleberry Finn, and a runaway slave, Jim. ... Though the idea of independence was fairly similar to that of Realism, instead of dealing with slavery, it is now dealing with segregation and the fight for equal rights. ......

• Word Count: 969
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate