In 1884, Mark Twain wrote one of the most controversial andremembered novels in the world of literature, The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. ... Twain made Huckleberry Finn represent himfictionally in this book. ... The Mississippi River and thetowns along it were used as the setting in The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. ... Twain used satire to make the society on theMississippi River appear as a greedy place where values weretwisted and church was more of an entertainment than a religion.Huck and Jim's perfect life on the raft was cut short when the twofrauds came aboard. ... In The ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While Mark Twain's imagination takes center stage in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and creates a world in which his characters are caught in implausible circumstances and situations, it nevertheless should not lose any credibility of its realism and of how things truly were in the Old South during slavery. ... What Twain has done in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is combine the two - real fiction and fantasy fiction - to assemble what many consider The Great American Novel. ... Admittingly, the tale of young Huck Finn's journey - between his brief stay in civilization at the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many critics gave him great reviews on this short story because of the way he portrayed it to seem just as the place he studied to begin writing it over. ... Twain's earlier novels, short stories, essays, and public lectures poke fun at human imperfection with delight and cordiality. ... He has had many great short stories, essays, and etc. throughout his career. ... In 1884 Twain published a novel that was titled, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." ... "It was a great last short story" many critics had claimed (Milne, P 168). ...

• Word Count: 1459
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• Grade Level: High School