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[DM Michigan]

admins dont deleted this my emails being gay and might not save this so yea anyways i have to write a stupid essay over break and heres the first part. feel free to comment/ contribute. its a very shitty intro because im lazy:

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Mr. Kram
Adv. Am. Lit.
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Huckleberry Fun Paper to Read​

[FONT=&quot] In southern societies in the 1800’s, it was very rare to find a person who was completely straightforward and direct in their speech and was able tell it like it was. People tended to hide the bitter reality of racism with lies that would comfort themselves because they refused to believe that any part of their way of life was flawed. However, not everyone was so ignorant and myopic. Mark Twain, an author during this time, was one of the few who could see through the nostalgia in the South. In Twains novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he wrote in a style, which raised many eyebrows. The style consisted of creating a truthful imagination of typical southern life by taking a lower middle class viewpoint, using the dialects and customs of the South to influence the writing, and portraying the characters of the story with flaws. This included satire to criticize the South, and developing characters as neither good nor evil, instead, making immoral or moral decisions. This writing style soon became known as literary realism, and Mark Twain became the most notorious realistic author.[/FONT]

 

[DM Michigan]

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If someone wants to use a free essay on realism in huck finn here it is lmao: again dont delete this i need this when i get back home. And yes it says nigger because its a direct book quote and is showing an example of racisms on the charectors. its not offensive​

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In southern societies in the 1800’s, it was very rare to find a person who was completely straightforward and direct in their speech and was able tell it like it was. People tended to hide the bitter reality of racism with lies that would comfort themselves because they refused to believe that any part of their way of life was flawed. However, not everyone was so ignorant and myopic. Mark Twain, an author during this time, was one of the few who could see through the nostalgia in the South. In Twains novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he wrote in a style, which raised many eyebrows. The style consisted of creating a truthful imagination of typical southern life by taking a lower middle class viewpoint, using the dialects and customs of the South to influence the writing, and portraying the characters of the story with flaws. This included satire to criticize the South, and developing characters as neither good nor evil, instead, making immoral or moral decisions. This writing style soon became known as literary realism, and Mark Twain became the most notorious realistic author.
First, Mark Twain was a realistic author because he wrote with regionalism to capture mannerisms and customs of the South. In Huckleberry Finn, Huck realizes that Jim is capable of real human emotion when he says, “I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so” (155). Huck, who had been brought up in southern culture, was lead to believe that African Americans were a different species then white people and were in capable of human emotions. Huck’s feeling that it is unnatural for a black man to have feelings reflects the South as a whole in the book, as its people treat African Americans with no respect or dignity. This racial tendency continues in the book when Huck visits Aunt Sally and says:
“We blowed out a cylinder-head.”
“Good gracious! Anybody Hurt?”
“No’m. Killed a nigger.”
“Well it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt” (221).<o></o>
While Huck may have just been imitating Southerners to fit in, Sally’s comment is shocking. This chilling remark by Aunt Sally epitomizes the white Southerners cultural views on African Americans by not classifying African Americans as human beings. Twains use of realism portrays the Southern culture and ideologies in a manner relative to what it would be like in the 1800’s.
Mark Twain also was realistic author because he took a lower-middle class viewpoint. In Huck Finn,Huck’s dad finds out that Huck is being educated and says:
“You’ve put on considerable many frills since I’ve been away. I’ll take
you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say – can read and write, you think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t? I’ll take it out of you. Who told you you might meddle with meddle with such hifalut’n foolishness, hey? – who told you you could?” (19).
Huck’s dad could not stand that Huck was becoming smarter than he was and therefore in a different social class. Huck, who had been brought up by his dad, was brought up poor and worked his way up into the middle class. However, Huck is still by no means upper class because when they steal Jim Huck regards Tom Sawyer as, “A boy that was respectable and well brung up; and had a character to loose…” (233). Mark Twain gave a reference of exactly what class Huck Finn was in, as he regarded Tom Sawyer as well brought up. In reality, Tom Sawyer was an average middle class kid, and Huck was in the lower middle class. The novel therefore captures the main characters as basic lower middle class citizens to present a problem important to that class.
Finally, Mark Twain was a realistic author because he depicted the main characters as neither good nor evil, but instead containing flaws. When Huck and Tom plan on stealing Jim from the Phelps’s shed, Huck tells Tom his plan and Tom replies, “Work? Why, cert’nly it would work, like rats a-fighting. But it’s too blame’ simple; there ain’t nothing to it” (233). Tom’s major flaw is that he wants to do everything romantically with crazy schemes. In doing so, he disregards the safety of others, but only because his mind is clouded with romantic thoughts, not because he is evil. It is also evident that Huck Finn is flawed when he says, “he says, “I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks, though I ain’t had no experience, and can’t say for certain” (152). Huck is a compulsive liar who thinks that the best way to get out of any situation is to lie. While it does get Huck out of most of his trouble, it can also put him into more trouble when people catch on. As with Tom, Huck is not lying because he is evil and wants to harm others, he is lying because it has become a habit of his.<o></o>
Mark Twain was a prolific writer of realism throughout many of his books, especially Huck Finn. He used used regionalism to obtain a more accurate account of the South in the 1800’s. Twain used the lower middle class point of view to describe an issue that pertained to that class. The characters in the novel also had flaws and were neither moral nor immoral. Twain’s literary masterpiece was a key in destroying racism in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">US</st1lace></st1:country-region> as a whole by blazoning how people acted and how we can improve.
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[DM Toonaami]

nice job i jstu ahd to read that class for my english class awhile ago

 

[DM iNSANE]

in the first sentence "their" should be "his" lol sry thats all i read.

 

[DM Michigan]

in the first sentence "their" should be "his" lol sry thats all i read.

Wow yea I should probably proofread it now

 

[DM xFantin]

too lazy to read it.

 

[DM Michigan]

too lazy to read it.

Yet enough effort to type that up...