Tom Sawyer, the protagonist in Mark Twain’s beloved novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, has been a special literary character, holding a place in readers’ hearts since 1876. The infamous author, Mark Twain, masterfully exploits wonderful dialect in his novel to produce the archetypal traits in his hero, little Tom. Lexically defined, dialect is a particular form of language that is peculiar to a specific individual, obvious in his mental thoughts and verbal conversations. In the very beginning of the narrative, the author alludes to wonderful narrative in his novel when he gives the internal struggle occurring as Tom is stuck doing work on a beautiful Saturday. Writing his archetype with innovative ideas through dialect, he opens with:
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there was company at the pump...and that Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour- and even then someone generally had to go after him. Tom said: “Say Jim, I’ll fetch the water if you’ll whitewash some!” After Jim refuses, Tom goes on by saying, “Oh, never you mind what she said, Jim.
That’s the way she always talks. Gimme the bucket- I won’t be gone only a minute. She won’t ever know.” (Chapter 2)
In this section, the reader is automatically on Tom’s side due to the brilliant technique Mark Twain uses. It is critical that Tom get out of work, and his ingenious idea to use Jim’s chore to escape his own sets him apart. The dialect, thoughts and words, Twain uses for Tom in this section creates an archetypal hero who has great ideas. The dialect is continued with this quote from later in Chapter 2,
“At this dark and hopeless moment an inspiration burst upon him! Nothing less than a great magnificent inspiration...He paid no attention to Ben but continued whitewashing (Chapter 2).”
Tom, a clever boy, eventually strikes upon an idea internally and displays it through conversations with neighborhood boys, using his antics to make them do his work. To the reader’s satisfaction, the main character evade his work as poor victims are tricked into Tom’s work. The readers finds themselves cheering for the protagonist’s accomplishment, and are in awe of his heist. His charming acting skills in his manipulative conversations makes Tom Sawyer a smart archetype to Twain’s readers. By implementing creative dialect, Mark Twain produces an archetypal hero and ultimately became known for applying this terrific technique in all of his
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain during the late 1800’s (Mintz). The book brought major controversy over the plot, as well as the fact that it was a spin-off to his previous story, Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This book has remained a success due to Twain’s interesting techniques of keeping the audience’s attention. Chapters eleven and twelve of “Huckleberry Finn,” uses a first person limited point of view to take advantage of the use of dialogue while using many hyperboles to add drama to entertain the reader by creating description within the story without needing to pause and explain.
Mark Twain, a famous American writer-satirist wrote many books highly acclaimed throughout the world. For his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the literary establishment recognized him as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. This novel is about a teenage boy by the name of Huck Finn whose father is an alcoholic. Because of his violence, Huck runs away and finds a runaway slave Jim. Instead of turning Jim in, Huck goes against society and makes a decision to help Jim break free from slavery. As they travel together, Huck learns more and more about Jim and starts to understand that the common stereotype of black people is wrong. Huck sees there is no difference between Jim and any white man he knows except for skin color. Risking his life and overcoming many difficulties on the way, Huck succeeds in freeing Jim. Focusing on racism, alcoholism and mob mentality, Mark Twain uses his enthusiastic style of writing and satirizes the three traits throughout the novel.
...f him as a person. He then finally thought of how Jim called him honey and how Jim was all he had. “I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt tow things, and I knowed it. I studies a minute, sort of holding my breath and then says to myself: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” – and tore it up” (Twain 210). This moment was greatest turning point of the book.
Mark Twain is considered one of America 's most highly regarded literary icons. He upholds this status by utilizing parallelism to include bits of information about himself in the novel. Throughout the story, Twain keeps a sort of idol-influenced motivation
While Tom’s role in the plot of the novel is small, his contribution to the overall message is integral. His nonsensical antics and wild imagination provide for amusing scenes and moments, however they share a deeper meaning that Twain means to convey to his audience. Representing the juxtaposition of a privileged man in Southern Antebellum society in the character of a young boy contributes to the satiric nature of the novel by providing a certain hilarity to the seriousness of Tom’s cruel
Twain describes local customs and the ways that the characters behave to create a more realistic setting for the story. In the story the characters engage in behavior or activities that would be unusual for a regular person to do. For example, the narrator says:
Tom Sawyer, a mischievous, brave, and daring boy that goes through adventures in love, murder, and treasure. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is about a boy maturing from a whimsical troublemaker into a caring young man. In the "conclusion" Mark Twain writes, "It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much farther without becoming a history of a man" Tom is now maturing throughout a span of adventures in love, treasure, and everyday life that make him more of an adult, then a boy.
Mark Twain, who is a realistic fiction writer, incorporates satire and humor in his writing, including Archetypal elements to modify how the reader interprets the story. He uses many archetypal characters like Huck and Jim who both can be argued as the heroes. They both have good intentions and help others. Mark Twain portrays Jim as a deeply caring and loyal friend. Jim becomes a father figure to Huck, helping him realize the human face of slavery. Twain Portrays Huck as a young and naive boy who has been under the wrong influence for a long time. Another archetypal element that Mark Twain uses is Jims Quest for freedom. This was a quest for most all African Americans, to run away north so you could be free. But Jim was one of the few who was brave enough to do so; that’s he can be classified as the hero in the story. But Jim’s life is not too bad compared to historical records about the lives of slaves. Even though he had to struggle for his freedom, he didn’t have any good reason to leave. His life contested of helping round and not doing hard enduring work like some of the other slaves. The way Jim’s life is portrayed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Mark Twain criticizes the life of African Americans at the time.
Mark Twain applies humor in the various episodes throughout the book to keep the reader laughing and make the story interesting. The first humorous episode occurs when Huck Finn astonishes Jim with stories of kings. Jim had only heard of King Solomon, whom he considers a fool for wanting to chop a baby in half and adds, Yit dey say Sollermun de wises?man dat ever live? I doan?take no stock in dat (75). Next, the author introduces the Grangerfords as Huck goes ashore and unexpectedly encounters this family. Huck learns about a feud occurring between the two biggest families in town: the Grangerfords and the Sheperdsons. When Huck asks Buck about the feud, Buck replies, 搾... a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man抯 brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in ?and by and by everybody抯 killed off, and there ain抰 no more feud挃 (105). A duel breaks out one day between the families and Huck leaves town, heading for the river where he rejoins Jim, and they continue down the Mississippi. Another humorous episode appears n the novel on the Phelps plantation. Huck learns that the king has sold Jim to the Phelps family, relatives of Tom Sawyer. The Phelps family mistakes Huck for Tom Sawyer. When Tom meets with Aunt Sally, he ?.. [reaches] over and [kisses] Aunt Sally on the mouth?(219) This comes as a surprises to her and Tom explains that he 揫thinks] [she] [likes] it?(219) Later, Huck runs into Tom on the way into town and the two make up another story about their identities. The two then devise a plan to rescue Jim. They use Jim as a prisoner and make him go through jail escaping clich閟.
This is how Twain starts his book off. In this "explanatory"(Twain 2) he calls it, one sees that he dares the reader to try and find meaning in the dialect of which his characters speak. He tries to make the reader understand that he, the writer, still realizes that this dialect is not the prettiest and even calls it an "extremest form"(Twain 2). The issue that one can see is that Twain wants the reader to understand this was the dialect of the time. Howe...
In his novel Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain employed diction, syntax, description, and dialogue to optimize the effect that his work would have on his readers. For instance, Twain’s usage of diction in the vernacular that Huck and his peers use in conversations, expressions, etc. highlights the story’s setting and places it in a specific time and location. His syntax works the same way, which also reflects society and human nature. Twain’s description of many things, such as relations between black and white people, family, religion, violence, and morality are presented in such a way that allows the reader to understand the context of the novel’s setting while also unveiling many of society’s hypocritical and prejudicial tendencies. A
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Literary artists refuse to be categorized, defined, and completely fathomed by any standardized paradigm, but a writer's work exhibits his or her personality traits. Though authors are incapable of being defined by mere personality traits, literary accomplishments, and literary criticisms, an author's personality can be used to sketch a limited definition of his or her literature. Mark Twain's literature manifests his personality's candor, graphicness, humor, and criticalness that William Dean Howells describes in "My Mark Twain." These attributes are evident in "Old Times on the Mississippi," The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg." Howells' portrayal of Twain facilitates some understanding of Twain's fiction, but by no means is Mark Twain's literature as simple as four personality traits. The traits of Twain's literature transcend simple entertainment, and he enlightens the reader about the need to reform literature, religion, society, and the individual.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pseudonym Mark Twain, has been central to American literature for over a century. His seemingly effortless diction accurately exemplified America’s southern culture. From his early experiences in journalism to his most famous fictional works, Twain has remained relevant to American writing as well as pop culture. His iconic works are timeless and have given inspiration the youth of America for decades. He distanced himself from formal writing and became one of the most celebrated humorists. Mark Twain’s use of the common vernacular set him apart from authors of his era giving his readers a sense of familiarity and emotional connection to his characters and himself.
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