Mark Twain's, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a literary work that has such an intense amount of dialect. Twain’s use of dialect , gives readers an overall sense of realism and vividness of the story, “Huckleberry finn”. Since the story contains dialect, a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group, it is quite difficult to understand the characters speech. Due to that we are basically forced to read out loud and even hear how the dialect of the character take over our speech. The dialects in the story, shows the readers the characters attitudes and beliefs, their social class and much more.
First and foremost, in the very beginning, right before the story commences with,
“In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect… i make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding” (Twain, xvi). Twain allows his readers to know behind hand that the book is filled with dialect, varying by character and
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For example, in the very first chapter we can already pick up an accent from huck once he says, “You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter,”(Twain,1). Huck’s dialect is a Pike County dialect, with improper way of speech and contractions you can tell that he a is quite uneducated boy from the mississippi. Once read out loud, hucks tone of voice often contained improper use of speech like in chapter 13 where he says, “...it warn't no time to be