Mark Twain is a Great American Author

Mark Twain is a Great American Author

In the book Huck Finn, Mark Twain not only writes about the

adventures of a young boy, he depicts the struggle that people had to go

through in that time period. That is just one of the reasons why some

people consider Mark Twain to be the greatest American author of all time.

As I was reading the book Huck Finn I started to agree more with

what Mencken had to say "Put him beside Emerson, or Whitman, or Hawthorne,

or even Poe; he was palpably the superior of all of them". I could really

relate to lots of the ideas and emotions that sprang into Tom and Huck's

heads at the time. In Huck Finn, Tom gets a group of boys together to form

a little club. When I was younger I would do the same thing with friends of

mine. We would act out our fantasies just like Tom and Huck did in the

story. All of Huck's life he was able to live it the way that he wanted,

until he had to move in with Miss Watson. But as you read you find out that

every minute he is away from her he is up to his old tricks again. From

going out to having a smoke with Tom, or messing up his hair so he could

feel at home. You can see that he is still a little boy inside who isn't

ready to grow up.

Tom Sawyer is one of those type of friends that everybody has,

crazy enough to get everybody's attention but smart enough to know when to

stop. I read some of the things that Tom had done in the book and some of

the lies he would tell and I thought "man he is crazy for doing that" but

as I thought about it more it seems reasonable to a kid at that age and why

wouldnt he act the way he did ?

Mark Twain takes a big step to the side when he writes about one of

Miss Watsons slaves. Jim is a strong black slave in about his mid-twenties.

As you read about Jim and see what he's had to go through you can start to