Huckleberry Finn Literary Analysis

All books can be evaluated on two levels, on a mechanical level, and on an intellectual level. The mechanical side of a critique would concern vocabulary, depth, and readability. An intellectual critique, however, concerns how pleasing a plot flow is, or how engaging and relatable characters are. These two elements are the main components of the book, and their ability to mesh and create an interesting and understandable book is what separates the good books or chapters from the bad. The ending of the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ultimately failed the book, as it did not efficiently bring together mechanical and intellectual elements to create an ending that makes the reader engaged or keeps the reader thinking. The end of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins at chapter thirty-three, which is where the final setting and all of

The book, however, is forty-three chapters long, and devoting such a sizeable section of the novel to the resolution of the plot drags out the ending a sub-300 page book. Twain also turns to Tom Sawyer, a character from one of his previous novels, to resolve the plot. While Tom is mentioned throughout the novel, it is in passing, and relying on him to solve Huck and Jim’s book is odd. With the addition of Tom, Twain eliminates a well-developed character, and only uses him as an ignorant child-like character, which destroys all of the previous work with Jim’s character in the novel, forcing the reader to suddenly transfer their interest from Jim to Tom. [insert moral quote] can be seen at the front of the book. Despite this warning however, the book fails to draw any sort of conclusions about any of it’s plot or characters. The primary reason that the book’s ending fails on a mechanical critique is purely lazy writing by Twain.