Samuel Langhorne Clemens, together with the numerous significant American poets, considered realism to be a faithful representation of what they viewed as a truthful portrayal of the reality in the era in which they lived in. With directly approaching the truth, they created the literary movement which was a genuine reflection of reality. The middle of the nineteenth century was the ideal period for the establishment of the realism. As opposed to Romanticism which stresses the importance of one 's individual feelings, Realism is attached to the problems that arise in a society, as well as their true colors. Realism offers different interpretation of the term individual, because realism emphasizes the importance of society and the person as part within that society. Realism brings a new way of practicing life, for involving the industrialization as the main issue in numerous writers ' works, due to the fact they still held on to the American tradition. They felt threatened that the folklore 's value will be lost. Many realists chose a specific region to write about; for example one of the most famous piece of art written by the grandiose Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", focuses on the Mississippi River - referred to as local color. Opinions about abolishing slavery were divided, while one group of people felt upset and disappointed, the others chose to embrace it positively, leading the whole nation on the path of progress. Consequently, these divided