In this excerpt from the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows many elements used in Literacy Realism. As the reader, you can clearly identify the setting and time period of the story from the many descriptive details and language that Mark Twain uses. The reader can identify with the vernacular and use of common words in the story’s time period. Mark Twain follows the life of an ordinary man in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is simply a realistic story set in a realistic time period where the main protagonist is an ordinary man. Mark Twain also uses the narrator to express realism when he uses Huck Finn to address the readers directly which slightly breaks the fourth wall but also adds a sense of realism …show more content…
Franz Kafka work, which fuses elements of modernism and the fantastic, features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic situations. This is best described in an excerpt from his work translated to Metamorphosis. “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin(Kafka).” This quote is a direct representation of what Franz Kafka focused on most. The idea of waking up to being in a different body or form is a clear example of fantastic writing theme. Franz Kafka almost directly asks the question that all modernist writers seem to ask, “What will the world become?”, however, instead of asking, Franz Kafka simply tells the story as if that scenario played out on its own. Franz Kafka also uses a narrator who describes the events of the story in a monotone tone showing little to no emotions. This adds to the enormous tone of modernistic literature by simply being okay with any event that unfolds. One element of modernism in the story is the absurd nature of the plot. It is extremely absurd that a man would wake up in the body of an insect. Absurd situations are a cornerstone element in Modernist