The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a satirical novel by the Author Mark Twain. This book is written in a similar style to his work The adventures of Tom Sawyer and contains many of the same characters This novel is a satire about society’s views towards slaves and growing up in that time. Twain illustrates the difference between characters and their cultural context in his use of diction during conversations held between characters. In chapter 30 the cultural difference between Huck and Jim becomes illuminated when Jim takes Hucks practical joke very seriously and enters a life crisis about it. He goes on talking about what spirits and demons and what other worldly things events are supposed to represent until Huck breaks it to him that it was a prank the whole time and then Jim is extremely saddened. Twain's use of diction really illustrates to the audience the emotions both of the characters are going through and it's does it without directly telling the audience Twain does a great job of incorporating characters from his other works without leaving people who haven’t read those works completely out of the loop.In the beginning you met Huckleberry and he’s a very crude person that has happened upon a large sum of money. His …show more content…
The author of this review begins by talking about how this work by Twain is written in a similar style to Twain’s other works. The author also talks about how Twain’s use of diction and dialect aren’t needlessly thrown in but used with purpose to enhance the context of the situation. This review touches on similar points as mine on how Twain’s use of diction and dialect enhance the context of the book. A similarity across all three of the reviews is how we picked up on Huck's circumstances and how they lead from Jim being viewed as property to Huck ultimately viewing him as a friend as they bonded over the course of their trip down the