Huckleberry Finn Point Of View Analysis

The point of view in Huckleberry Finn offers a different perspective because rather than the narrator being an adult figure, it lies in the hands of Huckleberry Finn, a thirteen-year-old boy. Huckleberry provides a different perspective of the point of view than what is typical because he lives his life as a child, observing the adult world around him. Huck's vocabulary, way of describing objects, and explaining events in the novel are an excellent display of his youthfulness. Throughout the novel Huck also plays many different tricks and jokes on people in the novel. Such as the one that saved his life, when he murdered a pig and faked his death to escape from his father, Pap. These are just some of the examples of how the tale being told in Huck's point of view can lead to the reader interpreting what they read differently.

Brown. In the article, Brown talks about how we, as the reader, watch Huck grow from his childlike way of acting, to a more mature boy throughout the novel. Brown also describes how The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn being in Huck's point of view is what makes it such a good work, "Huck never really grows out of, and the "adult" world which surrounds him and which he never really completely understands - that creates the tension, the irony, and the great power of the work" (10). By writing in a child's point of view, much of the bias that an adult would have is eliminated because children say what they think and do not hold back. The majority of this article discusses how Huck's point of view provides interesting forms of imagery due to his uncomplicated vocabulary, and how the information the reader receives is directly what Huck experiences on a first-hand