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Huckleberry Finn Argumentative Essay

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After Raft Praised as one of the best pieces of American Literature, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has a conclusion that does not live up to the plot. Twain wanted to replicate the mood that he created in Tom Sawyer, but he developed a deep, coming of age novel that expressed many complex issues. Twain stopped writing the novel and put it away for 10 years. When he finally wrote the ending he completely jeopardized the value of the quest and ultimately took away the legitimacy of his work. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’s finial chapters diminish the novel’s character development and become too convenient for the reader to believe. In the beginning of the work Huckleberry Finn has no say on what or how he feels on …show more content…

Huck and Jim ending up on Tom Sawyer’s uncle’s plantation, just when Tom was supposed to be visiting for the first time, so that Tom’s aunt and uncle confuse Huck for Tom seems unbelievable. The unveiling of events during the journey seems so sudden and adjusting with the environment while the ending becomes structured and forced in an unbelievable matter. T.S. Eliot said “it is right that the mood of the end of the book should bring us back to that of the beginning” (289 Eliot), but for Twain to achieve this unity in mood he completely omits the middle of novel. He made the ending completely detached from the middle and this causes its downfall. Besides the ending, the freedom of Jim is way too convenient. Miss Watson’s will frees Jim. In the beginning of the novel, Miss Watson stood for everything Huck and Jim wanted to be free from making her the common enemy. For Miss Watson to have a change in heart especially after Jim ran away seems unlikely (294 Marx). Then for everyone in the novel to be okay with a runaway slave being free without any punishment or re—enslavement also seems unrealistic. The ending becomes a joke, completely avoiding reality and focusing on the “wow” factor that ultimately takes away for the book’s

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