1. The novel talks about Huck Finn who is abused cruelly by his drunken father, he joins up with a runaway slave by the name Jim and escapes down Mississippi river on a tranche. On their mode, they come across a fatal hostility, con artists, and charms from the pre-civil war south. All this time, Huck's basic decency and conscience fight with the society spawned ideas about right and wrong, slavery and race.
The fact that the adventure off hackberry Finn is one of the greatest novels comes with a price. Its publishing broke the literal rules of that time thereby setting much of American literature. It is narrated by a boy whose understanding is far much less from the reader but who actually knows how to obey and follow his heart over his mind.
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The Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 1885
The New York World, March 7, 1885 http://bookmarks.reviews/the-1885-reviews-of-mark-twains-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/ Similarities
The two reviews are similar in that both spoke their views in support of twain secondly, they suggest that the humor and use of dialect in the novel may be lost on younger readers and finally, they say that the book is meant for youth to take them through the lesson of self-sacrifice and manliness.
Differences
The New York world compliments on the bad taste of the book while on the other hand, the chronicle found it good. In addition, in the New York world, the reviews upon humor were positive about the book whereas the chronicles complained that there was not enough humor to make a person laugh. Finally, the chronicles accuse the boy to be racist while the New York world praises the characters of the boy.
Therefore we can summarize that the two critic reviews share ideas that are almost alike thereby making them almost similar.
3. The Francisco Chronicle, March 15,
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Social and historical norms massively contributes to the critics of Huckleberry Finn, to start with, presence of the first Africa-America senator led to emergence of different views among the American writers about the novel thereby criticizing huckleberry Finn racism .secondly the amendment that was approved about the black Americans made the writers relate the incident with that of Huck and Jim. The slave trade by then was legally accepted thus critics were found when Huck decided to join Jim who was a mere slave yet Huck was more superior to him. In addition, voting rights for women shown an evolution of American tradition and this was related to evolution that is very evident in the book. Lastly, the American writers majorly based their critics on religion where they were against the kind of religion that was meant to exploit people in the