Early slave dialect has long been left behind and forgotten in history. The newer generation of kids and young African Americans are almost completely clueless to how the slaves actually spoke on a regular basis and their low level of education.Mark Twain highlights this aspect in his novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”,where Tom Sawyer,a sly southern country boy and Huckleberry Finn,a runaway negro who are best friends retell of their adventures.Huckleberry Finn who was as stated before,a run away negro opens up saying “YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer;but that aint no matter”.Just by my viewing of this I had already made inference of what the characters in the story were based off.This was brilliant use of dialect by Mark Twain.Huckleberry goes on to say in paragraph two of chapter one that “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son,and allowed she would sivilize me;”.Not only is this a great portrayal of the early slave and negro dialect its shows the limited education to blacks at this time …show more content…
Tom Quirk’s life has given him a different approach on “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.Although he does criticize Mark Twain for having a runaway negro wonder into the south during slavery knowing well that whites during that time would have him lynched.Being a Caucasian Man in the 40’s meant that you were at the top of society in terms of social life and practices.In his essay he talks about how the entire Journey was unnecessary from the start.Not realizing that the Journey was necessary for someone like Huck because he probably had never travelled far and experienced nothing more that working.He would not understand this because of him being from a different ethnic background.He does understand that the narrative was implausible for a number of reasons.He has a different approach on the novel,coming from a more technical view instead of morally.This is due to cultural and social aspects.This is