Mark Twain fills his novels with affective humor and literary excellence. The research focuses on Mark Twain’s use of humor persuades the readers to finish the entire novel. The research includes examples of Mark Twain’s creative genius. Mark Twain. creatively wove the novels to bring the real life issue of racism to the readers.
Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens in real life, rose to writing stardom with his books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain’s creatively wrote books using the humor literary style. His story entitled “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” was a creative novel based on Mark Twain’s boyhood years living in Hannibal
. Mark Twain patterned two of the Tom Sawyer characters after his two real life schoolmates, John Briggs and Will Bowen. Likewise, Mark Twain created a sequel to the Tom Sawyer story, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain based the Huckleberry story on Mark Twain’s childhood best friend, Tom Blankenship. Mark Twain creatively wrote a third popular novel entitled “The Prince and the Pauper”.
The third book did not have as much acclaim and popular demand as Mark Twain’s first two masterpieces, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn story finally catapulted Mark. Twain, as one of America’s all time notable writers.
Sharon Rush emphasized (Rush 10) Mark Twain creatively touched on the serious topic of racial discrimination during his time. The Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn stores centered the abuse of the African Americans. Mark Twain’s books creatively focused on the serious issue of racial slavery that was normal in the American community during Mark Twain’s time.
The Huckleberry Finn story included Mark Twain’s serious research on deep and enduring realities of American racism. Consequently, Mark Twain’s two books are mandatorily included in the American educational curriculum. The inclusion focused on bringing out the realities of racial discrimination of the pre-civil war days to the four walls of the classroom environment.
Racism flourished in the United States from 1870s to 1960s. Mark Twain creatively wrote in the Huckleberry Finn novel Huckleberry’s humorous voice “a dissentering minister”. Mark Twain based the sentence on the Wilks episode that bizarrely closed with disinterring a corpse.
Victor Doyno (68) reiterated one should consider looking at interviews with or texts by the author that describe his or her creative process. Mark Twain’s writing, especially on the Huckleberry Finn novel, included sparks of creative verbal wit, themes, and plot convulsions. Mark Twain admitted he allowed humor to drop in or stay out according to his moods.
However, he fitted the humor situations to fill the aesthetic requirements of Mark Twain’s novels. Mark Twain intentionally added humor to the serious racial scenes to differentiate his characters on the minds of the avid readers. Mark Twain normally included the humor aspect of his novels when editing started. Mark Twain loved to tinker with words of humor to spice up the novel’s excellently woven stories.
For example, Huckleberry Finn says “…and the king allowed he would drop over to ‘tother village, without any plan…”. There is no such word in the English language as ‘tother. This is one of Mark Twain’s creative genius at work. Mark Twain continually revised his original draft of the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn novel s to capture the readers’ interest to read on until the last page. Mark Twain was successful in this endeavour.
The success is pinned on creatively fusing humor into the chapters of Mark Twain’s masterpieces. Albert Bigelow Pain commented Mark Twain’s creative genius indicates his marvellous reminiscences that included an atmospheric relevance to American slave history. Such history is part of Mark Twain’s childhood biography.
Michael Kiskis (113) mentioned Mark Twain’s creative writing process includes imagination dominated by memory with sprinklings of creating details to unfold the realities of racism to the novel readers. Mark Twain’s penchant for details presents the unvarnished harshness of racial discrimination on a literary level.
Mark Twain’ s aim was to vividly bring the past into the novel readers’ present time in order for the readers to feel the pains, joys, triumphs and defeats of the people of his time. Mark Twain’s created included patches of sentences that function therapeutically to bring meaning and purpose into a world that seemed dreamlike and unreal.
Ken Rasmussen (220) observed Mark Twain creatively feature Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn with different characteristics. Tom Sawyer seeks attention and the limelight. Tom Sawyer seeks fame. On the other hand, Huckleberry Finn wants to be alone by his lonesome. Tom Sawyer is creative and is easily falling love with the girls of his age. On the other hand, Huckleberry Finn thrives on realistic environments.
Huckleberry Finn is practical. Mark Twain depicts Tom sawyer as a clever person. Mark Twain described Tom sawyer as bending onto quixotic fantasies. On the other hand, is cleverly practical. For example, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer create a plot to rescue Jim from his slave owners. Huckleberry Finn wants to rescue Jim by waiting until Uncle Silas Phelps is in deep sleep.
While sleeping, Tom and Huckleberry will grab the keys from the sleeping Phelps and rescue Jim. On the other hand, Tom’s version of the rescue is to spend weeks laboriously re-enacting famous escapes read from Tom’s references. Mark Twain intricately wove Huckleberry Finn’s faked death in the novel. Huckleberry Finn creatively executed escapes from his father by not wasting any step.
Consequently, Huckleberry Finn is able to steal many supplies. Huckleberry Finn fraudulently convinces everyone Huckleberry Finn’s dead body is floating along the Mississippi River. Bringing the escaping Jim along, Huckleberry Finn creatively invents new aliases to ensure the success of Jim’s escape.
Huckleberry Finn creatively saved the Wilks sisters from the hostile King and Duke. The King and Duke are hell bent on robbing the Wilks sisters. Huckleberry Finn’s intelligence is diminished when finally concedes to Tom’s escape plan.
Kent Rasmussen (221) Mark Twain modelled Huckleberry Finn’s father, Pap, on the real life Jimmy Finn. Finn was the drunkard in Mark Twain’s community. The real Finn did not have the qualities mentioned in Mark Twain’s rendition of Pap in the Huckleberry Finn novel. In addition, Mark Twain characterized Huckleberry Finn’s father as an abusive parent.
Huckleberry Finn learns a lesson from his father “take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you do not want him yourself you can easily find someone who will get the chicken”.
Mark Twain details Pap’s appearance as about 50 years old, having long black greasy hair, a long beard, a sickeningly white skin, rags covering his outmoded body, toes pointing through a hole in the person’s worn out boots, having black slouch hat with the top caved in. However, the sentence in the Huckleberry Finn novel shows “…you can easy find…” this is a good example of creativity.
Mark Twain intentionally made the wrong grammar to keep the readers on the edge of their seats as they ponder the essence of the intentional replacement of easily by the erroneous easy. As part of the creative process, Mark Twain included a sad scene in the predominantly humorous story.
Mark Twain included the scene where the escaping slave, Jim, persuades Huckleberry Finn not to look at the victim’s face. Jim estimates some shot dead person at the back two days prior to Jim and Huckleberry Finn’s arrival. The Huckleberry Finn novel’s chapter 9 shows that the dead man is Huckleberry Finn’s own father, Pap.
Harold Bloom (37) mentioned Mark Twain’s creative genius can be seen in the passage “…They bad come up from the quarry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence. It is funny they had not come in, after standing around so… ”.
The verse clearly shows the character is an uneducated person, judging from the wrong grammar used. Creative imagination explodes with the word stile that brings a crystal-clear focus on the coming up prediction. Mark Twain includes the garden fences the creating narrative limits by mentioned in the novel.
In addition, Stephen Railton (32) theorized Mark Twain creatively inserted the characters of the King and the Duke to bring entertainment to its fullest. Mark Twain includes the two evil characters to ensure the success of the Huckleberry Finn novel during its stage performance. The two characters make a living on taking advantage of their victims. The two would manipulate the people’s appetites.
The people’s appetites included religious trimmings. Likewise, the two took advantage of the sadacious desires of the male audiences at nonesuch, or the sentimental needs of Peter Wilk’s neighbors. The Huckleberry Finn novel includes an ambivalent setting to entertain the followers of the Huckleberry Finn story.
The Huckleberry Finn novel includes some tinges of democratic character when it brings the issue of slavery to the people, the judges of democratic ideals. To bring the creativity process to it highest levels, Mark Twain characterized Tom Sawyer, a poor boy, and Huckleberry Finn, an African American slave, into the story.
The two characters do not belong the circle of rich people of American society. Mark Twain’s creativity includes such words as “raging rush of people”, “drunk rider’s danger”, and “stretching their necks” to bring color to the Huckleberry Finn novel.
The author supporter does not deviate from the class discussions concerning the creative process. Mark Twain’s creative process complies with the creative process for his novels are able to find useful knowledge by searching for the problem space, limiting the adaptation task, and discovering answers that are substantially different from the normal or original one.
Mark Twain’s novels focused on letting the audiences or viewers of his novels to work out a solution to the racism problem that prevailed during Mark Twain’s time. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn resolved the issue of racism in the novels. They did so by taking a stance to rescue Jim from his owners.
Based on the above discussion, the novels of Mark Twain includes humor and literary excellence. The Mark Twain novels include humor persuade the readers to finish the entire novel creatively.
Mark Twain’s creative genius includes immortalizing the diverse circumstances of the characters. Indeed, Mark Twain creatively wrote the novels bring the real life issue of racism to the readers creatively.
Works Cited
Bloom, Harold. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Infobase Press, 2007. Priint.
Doyno, Victor. Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain’s Creative Process. New York: University Press, 1993. Print.
Kiskis, Michael. Constructing Mark Twain. New York: University Press, 2001. Print
Railton, Stephen. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Broadway Press, 2011. Print.
Rasmussen, Kent. Critical Companion to Mark Twain. New York: Infobase Press, 2007.Print.
Rush, Sharon. Huck Finn’s “Hidden” Lessons. New York: Rowman Press, 2005.Print.