...ge of 12 in order to earn his living. He rote his first article at 15, and his first short story as published hen he as 16. In 1857 he started don the Mississippi toard Ne Orleans as an apprentice steamboat pilot. The people he met and the scenes he vieed during these four years on the Mississippi furnished characters and situations for his later ritings.tpar ttab His first successful literary exploit as a short story SItitfs22 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountySItfs22 , hich brought him national attention.tpar ttab SItitfs22 The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSItfs22 , a sequel to SItitfs22 Tom SayerSItfs22 in the picaresque vein of the latter, being a keener realistic portrayal of regional character and frontier experience on the Mississippi.tpar ttab It is the story of a flight don the Mississippi of a hite boy Huck and of a runaay slave Jim. Really astonishing is the variety of its farce and character.tpar Stpard tqjtfi720tnoidctlpartidctlpartadjustright Ititfs22 The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSItfs22 is one of the supreme masterpiece of American literature - a ork hich reaches out beyond the limitations of time and touches hat is most human in the readers of any age or country.tpar Stpard tqjtnoidctlpartidctlpartadjustright Itfs22 ttab Hucktrquote s character is so morally sensitive that he must undergo a moral testing and development. And Huck becomes a heroic character hen, urged on by affection, he discards the moral code he has alays taken for granted and resolves to help Jim in his escape from slavery. The intensity of his struggle over the act suggests ho deeply he is involved in the society hich he rejects.tpar ttab Huck means by tldblquote righttrdblquote for a Negro to be a slave if a Negro runs aay, every hite man has the duty to stop him and take back to his master to be punished. By tldblquote rongtrdblquote , Huck means helping a Negro to escape slavery. The theme of the fragment represents Hucktrquote s inner struggle beteen his prejudices and his humane feelings.tpar ttab Along the story Huck discovers Negro Jim to be not only a human being, but also a very admirable one. To his astonishment, he begins to have feelings of brotherhood toards him. He is, to a certain degree, aare of the contradiction beteen these feelings and his prejudices.tpar ttab He has only to consult his conscience, the conscience of a Southern boy in the middle of the last century, to kno that he ought to return Jim to slavery. And hen at last he finds that he cannot endure his decision but must change it and help Jim in his escape, it is not because he has acquired any ne ideas about slavery.tpar ttab Hucktrquote s instinct is to help anybody in trouble, no matter ho they have been mistreated. Any display of human cruelty sickens him no matter hat the putative rights and rongs of the matter. Huck is curiously alone, he is almost impersonally melancholic, he has a desire to ander, to leave no tracks and he betrays a premature nostalgia.tpar ttab The literary ork of Mark Tain belongs to the treasury of orld literature because of the acuity of its social criticism, its generous ideals, the authenticity of satire, the irresistible charm of its humour, and the natural expression.tpar ttab The tldblquote point of vietrdblquote in this novel is quite different from the one in tldblquote Alicetrquote s Adventures in onderlandtrdblquote . Here the narrator is the major character this is called SItitfs22 1SItitfs22tsuper stSItitfs22 person narrativeSItfs22 .tpar ttab In close connection ith tldblquote point of vietrdblquote in this novel is its very original style. Mark Tain created a literary language hich as quite ne in the American literature of that time the use in prose of the genuine American colloquial speech.tpar SS...
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