Novel Project Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a troubled, runaway boy, Huckleberry Finn, looking to find a real friend and comfort. He meets a runaway slave, Jim, and they have many adventures together including: dressing up as females, getting kidnapped, impersonating friends, being involved with con artists, and criminals. The book is the sequel to Tom Sawyer and is set in the late 1800’s. Throughout the book, different characters have different diction. The reader can tell when he or she reads Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses an assortment of different vernacular to emphasize unsophisticated language, southern dialect, and socioeconomics to establish the plot of the story.
In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain makes Huck Finn use the quote “I knowed I was alright now.” The reader can infer that Huck Finn had little to no education at all. Also the reader can tell that he was brought up wrongly and raised improperly. But, most of Huck Finn’s “posy”, spoke that way because of the same reason, maybe he had picked up that type of language from his “gang”. Another
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When Huckleberry Finn pretended to be Miss Sarah Williams to get information on what is happening in town, the reader could tell a complete difference in the way that Huckleberry talked when he was a boy and then when he was a “girl”. Also, the lady that he, she, tried to get the information and help from. While each of them were having a conversation between one another, they each still used a lot of Southern words and phrases such as “reckon” and “no’m”. But the way they talked is much more proper and better in grammar than how you would talk to someone that you are close with. This is because in those days you would talk more sophisticated to your elders. Having to do with the social part in