The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Realism and Moral Beliefs

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coated or exaggerated. The characters do things as they would normally do them, and are not worse or better then their real life counterparts.

Using his experiences as a steamboat engineer, Mark Twain creates a realistic novel through meticulous detail in the descriptions of the setting, diction, and characters. The setting is described with much detail and imagery, so as to make it as close as possible to the actual surroundings. Twain uses a page just to describe the sunrise over the river.

The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line - that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away-trading-scows, and such things; and long black streaks-rafts ... and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know ...

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terms. The diction in general matches that of the south with such popular expressions as "dog my cats" and "by and by". The use of proper diction that fits the characters, time period, and location is another way in which The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn becomes a realistic novel.

In unmasking the identities of characters, Twain satirizes the falseness and hypocrisy of certain educators, religious leaders, and romantics. Twain shows how the characters act in front of others, and then reveals their true emotions and mannerisms. The Duke and the Dauphin, for example, are two characters whom Huckleberry meets while traveling with Jim. The two act sophisticated and well read, but are ...

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