The Slanting Veil Of Rain Symbolism Analysis

Introduction
This story is one of Mark Twain’s popular novels since the use of symbolism and imagery depicts and develops the falling point in the book. Throughout the story there was a repeating symbol of superstition. Another symbol that was discovered through the story was treasure, since Tom and Huck find some treasure. It is also symbolic where the setting took place since it was around where Mark Twain grew up. The storm that hits when Tom runs away from society is also symbolic. A few examples of Imagery within the story was “the slanting veil of rain” and “the river is white with foam”.
Superstition
In the novel the boys had a thing about superstition in which they used it for almost everything they did, and their first experiment

The setting is in St. Petersburg Missouri sometime around the ninetieth century. The town was gilded because it was this beautiful town with a river flowing through it but on the other hand there was murder, drunkenness, and poverty. This quote found from Digital history: “Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. In the popular view, the late 19th century was a period of greed and guile: of rapacious Robber Barons, unscrupulous speculators, and corporate buccaneers, of shady business practices, scandal-plagued politics, and vulgar display” (Overview of the Gilded Age n.d.). The quote gives a good explanation of what Mark Twain’s hometown was like since it seem good but underneath it all it had a sense of evil to it that he was exposed to at an early age unfortunately. All of this reflects the boyhood experiences Mark Twain had to go through growing up which must have been pretty rough. All of the experiences in the book reflect the experiences Mark Twain has been through. “However, violence was commonplace, and young Sam witnessed much death: When he was 9 years old, he saw a local man murder a cattle rancher, and at 10 he watched a slave die after a white overseer struck him with a piece of iron” (Mark Twain Biography n.d.).

An example from the book is “the slanting veil of rain” which basically means the rain was coming down in sheets. The audience could imagine the smell of the rain, the way the rain taste, the way the rain sound when it came down, the way it felt on your hand, and how it looked like coming down. Another example would be “the river was white with foam” which gives a description of what the river looked like. “…the bending trees, the billowy river, white with foam, the driving spray of spume flakes, the dim outlines of the high bluffs on the other side, glimpsed through the drifting cloudwrack and the slanting veil of rain” (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer n.d.). Another example of Imagery in this story would be this quote, “For some time was no noise but the grating sound of the shovels discharging their freight of mould and gravel” (Twain 63). This quote shows the reader how afraid Tom is when the murder takes place and how eerie the sound of shovels being used for a murder