Realism In Huckleberry Finn

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Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Connor McNeer English 12 Standard, 6th Period Mr. Wyllie May 4, 2011 Table of Contents I. Introduction……………………………………………………………...p. 1 II. Educational Background………………………………………………..p. 1 III. Saint-Gaudens Background…......……………………………………..p. 2 IV. Louis Sullivan Background……………………………………………p. 2-3 V. Edouard Manet Background…...……………………………………….p. 3 VI. Quality One- Ordinary Characters……………………………………..p. 4 VII. Quality Two- Realistic Setting………………………………………..p. 5 VIII. Quality Three- Informal Prose..……………………………………...p. 7 IX. Conclusion……………………………………………………………...p. 8 X. Works Cited…………………………………………………………….. XI. Appendix………………………………………………………………..p. 9-14 Connor McNeer English 12 Mr. Wyllie May 4, 2011 Realism Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in 1885, is a product of the Realistic time period. The novel contains qualities that were dominant throughout the mid 1850’s into the early 1900’s. Before the name ‘Mark Twain’ was created, the author was born with the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, son of, John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens. Twain was born into a family of seven children, only four of which survived past childhood. At the age of four, Twain and his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a small port town along the banks of the Mississippi River. This is the town in which he grew up in and worked as a deck hand on the river. After working as a veteran on the river by the age of nineteen, he made the switch to being called ‘Mark Twain’ because it meant “safe water”. After the Civil War, many African- Americans struggled for respect in most southern states. Around the publication year of the novel, freedom was limited to African Americans. Education was very limited to this race, thus providing a background to the uneducated Africans in the novel, The
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