Realism: Westward Expansion And Civil War

Realism As Romanticism days were over, Realism started growing. In contrast to Romanticism, where they believed that everyone had their own individual freedoms, Realists believed they were not free and had no control of their fate. They didn’t believe it would benefit themselves to work harder in order to advance because they’ve accepted that in life they will live, and then they will die. This all began as the Civil War and Westward Expansion came to an end. The Westward Expansion and Civil War were two very big events that coincide with the Realist era. The Westward Expansion started in 1803 when President Thomas Jefferson finalized the Louisiana Purchase with the French government. The Louisiana Purchase was large enough to double the

When Abraham Lincoln, who was against slavery, became president it brought all of these issues to the surface which caused the form of the Confederate and the Union. The Confederate states being the southern states and the Union being the northern states. All of this commotion led to the beginning of the Civil War (Spring 1861). As the war went on there were some of the more known battles, such as Gettysburg and the battle of Bull Run. Four Years later, 620,000 of the 2.4 million soldiers who fought have died, millions injured and the South’s population and territory has been destroyed. (“American Civil War History.” History.com) Now being the time that the Confederate states surrender,

The way Twain wrote was considered humorous as he often used a comic tone to discuss and explain some awful situations. he exercised this quite a bit in Huck Finn. The novel is about Huck, the main character, searching for freedom and adventure. Huck wants freedom as he was kidnapped by his father who he calls Pap, and locked in their cabin most days. This novel relates to the realist writing style because not only how it was written but what it was written about and what it includes. Huck Finn being a writing from the realist era, was an Americanized type of writing. Twain uses satire in a humorous way when he talks about slavery and racism, or when describing Huck’s relationship with his father. Not only does he use satire, but dialect and realistic details as well. Dialect is spread throughout the whole story and through every character. Its spread through the way the characters speak. The way Twain draws out their accent and grammar the way people would actually speak if you went to Missouri, setting of the