The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain
Author's Background
• Samuel Langhorne CleJane Lampton Clemens
known by his pen name Mark Twain, was born on
November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, United
States
• He was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur,
publisher, riverboat, pilot, lecturer and inventor.
• Wrote the novels 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and
'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’
• He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United
States has produced," and William Faulkner called
him "the father of American literature".
• Fourth child of John Marshall Clemens and Jane
Lampson Clemens
• Died on April 21, 1910
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Writing Characteristics of Mark Twain

* Mark Twain is famous for his humor and satire.

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*Mark Twain’s humor is based on the humor of the Western in
America.
*He used a lot of colloquial idioms and colloquial syntax.
*He often described persons who was innocent,simple,naive,
and ignorant as his heroes or heroines.
*He used the artistic style of hyperbole on the basis of
the western traditional humor and made his writing full of
allegories that lay behind the humor.
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 Characters and Significance

1. Huckleberry Finn 2. Widow Douglas

- He has brought by his father , the - is the kind lady who has taken
town drunk , and has a hard time Hunch in the after he helped
fitting in the society. Tom Sayer and
his friends ocassionally call him "
save her from a violent home
Hunch Finn" invasion.
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 Characters and Significance

3. Miss Watson ▸ 4. Jim

- is the widow's sister , a tough - Miss Watson's big, mild-
old sprinster who also lives with mannered slave.
them . She is fairly hard on
Huck , causing him to resent her
a good deal.
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5. Tom Sawyer
-is Huck's best friend and peer,
the main character of other
Twain novels and the leader of
the town boys in adventures. He
is "the best fighter and the
smartest kid in town
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6. Pap Finn
Huck's father, a brutal alcoholic
drifter. He resents Huck getting
any kind of education. His only
genuine interest in his son
involves begging or extorting
money to feed his alcohol
addiction.
7.Judith Loftus 8..The Grangerfords
- being the kind and perceptive -, an aristocratic Kentuckian family
woman whom Huck talks to in headed by the sexagenarian
order to find out about the search
for Jim
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 theme
- rACISM AND SLAVERY
- HYPOCRISY OF CIVILIZED -SOCIETY
-Freedom
-Mockery of religion
-superstition
-maturation and development
-vIOLENCE
-eDUCATION
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 Characters and Significance

10.Buck Grangerford, 11The Duke and the

9. Colonel Saul King
Grangerford, - who is Huck's age. By the
time Huck meets them, the - are two otherwise
- take Huck in after he unnamed con artists
Grangerfords have been
is separated from Jim whom Huck and Jim
engaged in an age-old blood
on the Mississippi. take aboard their raft
feud with another local
family, the Shepherdsons. just before the start of
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 Characters and Significance

12.Doctor Robinson 13.Mary Jane,

- is the only man who Joanna, and Susan 14. Aunt Sally and
recognizes that the Wilks Uncle Sials Phelps
King and Duke are -are the three young - are the two people
phonies when they nieces of their wealthy whose nephew Huck
pretend to be British. guardian, Peter Wilks, poses ,after he abondons
who has recently died the duke and the king
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 the Adventure of huckleberry finn summary
One of Twain’s most famous books was The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.The story is
about a young boy who loves adventure.Huck Finn decides to run away on adventure. To
escape to his crazy fatherHuck fakes his death. During his adventure Huck meets his
friend Jim, a slave on his foster family’s plantation.Jim has run away because he heard that
he was going to be sold away from his family.Huck decides to help Jim escape.The two go
on many adventures, including escaping a steamboat,meeting two con men, and living with
other families.While they are with the con men, who are posing as a dead man’s
brothers,Huck finds out that Jim has been thrown in jail for huck’s murder and for being a
runaway slave. While that is going on, the con men are caught in their lies when the real
brothers of the dead man showed up . Huck escapes the crowd and frees Jim with the help
of his friend Tom Sawyer. When the three are trying to run away, Tom is shot in the calf by
the mob trying to catch the boys, When they get him, the mob is ready to kill Jim .

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However, a doctor saves Jim’s life by telling the mob that
Jim was helping save Tom Sawyer’s life . They also all find
out that Miss Watson died two months ago and in her will
set Jim free. In the end , Jim tells Huck that his father died
on the steam boat and Huck decides to go west to seek more
adventures.

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 “
I do not wish any reward but to know I
have done the right thing

Mark Twain
The Adventure Of
Huckleberry Finn

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