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Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
Date of Authorship: November 30, 1835
Date of Original Publication: 1884
Genre: Adventure fiction
Biographical information about the author:
Samuel L. Clemens was born on November 30,1885, in Florida, Missouri. Samuel wrote several novels under his pen name Mark Twain. Samuel L. Clemens was the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. At the age of only 15, Samuel Clemens got a job as a printer and occasional writer at the Hannibal Western Union. In the year of 1862 he became a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. While as a reporter Samuel
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I says I’ll never vote again…I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?”
This quote was prior to making friends with Jim. Huck did not know that what he was saying and doing was wrong. He was taught morals, but they were not really right. Huck soon learned that slavery is not the right path. He ended up choosing Jim’s freedom over the society’s views.
“Yes—en I’s rich now come to look at it. I owns myself, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn’ want no mo’.”
This quote shows the reader how optimistic Jim is. He never has a bad temper or is pessimistic about anything. Throughout the book Jim only looks at the good that could come out of a bad situation.
“I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain’t no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself, yet, and then how would I like it?”
This quote is showing how Huck is changing throughout the book. Huck is starting to realize that no one should be treated badly not even criminals.
“For what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards