An Analysis of the Writing Styles of Mark Twain
His colloquial Language and Satire in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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I. The Background of Mark Twain
1.1 Mark Twain and His Experience
Mark Twain, pudorym of Samuel langhone Clemens, was brought up in the town of Hannibal, Missouri, near the Mississippi River. He was twelve when his father diod and he had to leave school. He was successively a printer’s apprentice, a tramp printer, a silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California. This knocking about gave him a wide knowledge of humanity. As one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experience. His life spanned the two Americas, the frontier America and the emerging urban, industrial giant of the twenty-century. 写有趣的事的作文
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As a witness of the civil war, Twain saw clearly the great changes in nation’s economic development and political life. With the final victory over the South the North once again enjoyed its wielding power in the nation’s administration. Now the acute conflict at home was undermined and the American people again focud their full attention on re-construction after the war. Becau most majority of the slaves were emancipated, the slave-bad economy of the defeated South had its prosperity became rootless. In this ca, clusters of groundless southern poor whites and the newly freed slaves headed directly of indirectly for the new-liberated cities to ek opportunities. It may be called the ‘Gold Rush’ rejuvenated, or rather, it was so-called the ‘American Dream’ by some critics. Twain also could not help rushing to the west to will his American dream. He once believed the idea of development and industrialization since it would modernize the young country and encourage the enterprising spirit of the American who had long been famous for it. He was firmly enthralled by such fever, so once again he held an optimistic attitude towards the post-westward expansion. He drew much inspiration from the unparalleled and magnificent event and spoke highly of its decision-makers and its people.
1.2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The best work that Mark Twain ever produced is, as we noted earlier on, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It tells a story about the United States before the Civil War, around 1850, when the great Mississippi Valley was still being ttled. Here lies an America, with its great national faults, full of violence and even cruelty, yet still retaining the virtues of ‘some simplicity, some innocence, and some peace.’ The story takes place along the Mississippi River, on both sides of which there was unpopulated wilderness and a den forest. It relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and, more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with him and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice about black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a clo friend as well.
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At the heart of Twain’s achievement is his creation of Huck Finn, who embodies that mythic America, midway between the wilderness and the modern super state.
1.3 A General Introduction to the Mississippi
The Mississippi is not only Mark Twain’s life stage but also American society’s stage. It flows through the middle of America; it’s one of the greatest rivers in the world. In Twain’s early years, the geographic core was the great valley of the Mississippi River, and the Mississippi is the main artery of transportation on the young nation’s heart. In 1857, young Mark Twain entered that world as a cub pilot on a steamboat. Later, when he wented to write something, this land provided him with many plentiful writing materials.
一夜七次朗II. Analyzing Two Writing Styles of Mark Twain (in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Mark Twain was the first important writer to consistently u the American speech rather than England’s English. His honor, whether it was aimed at pure entertainment or at social satire, was irresistible. His realism, and details influenced many later American novelists. That was why Ernest Hemingway once said “all modern American literatures came from one book written by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” And it became Twain’s masterpiece. Mark Twain’s three years’ life on that returned to the
Mississippi left such a fond memory with him that returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. Huckleberry Finn is a veritable recreation of living models, and is Huck’s book, not Jim’s. The two major characters, Huck and Jim, reprent the two sides of the dilemma: Huck strikes out for an absolute freedom, while Jim requires, in order to gain his own freedom, that Huck qualify his freedom by entering into the pursuit of Jim’s. It starts out as a comedy , an ‘As You Like It’ with a hero drawn from the bottom of society rather than the top. Huck and his father, Jim, the swindlers(the Duke and the Dauphin), colonel sherburn and the drunkard Boggy-all the characters prototypes in real life. The portrayal of individual incidents and characters achieved inten verisimilitude of detail. Serious problems are being discusd through the narration of a little illiterate boy. The fact that the wilderness juxtapod with civilization, the people half wild and half civilized, many of whom are wor, vulgar, are brutal. As for the style of the book, the form is bad on the simplest of all novel-forms, the so-called picaresque novel, or novel of the road, which strings its incidents on the line of the hero’s travels. But, in this novel, rivers are roads that move, and the movement of the road in its own mysterious life transmutes
the primitive simplicity of the from: the road itlf is the greatest character in this novel of the road, and the hero’s departures from the river and his returns to it compo a subtle and significant pattern. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows us the major achievements of his art: the masterful u of dialects; humor and pathos, innocence and evil. This novel demonstrates his ability to capture the enduring, archetypal, mythic images of America and to create the most memorable characters in all of American fiction.
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