The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Author |
Mark Twain |
Type |
Novel |
Genre |
Satire, Adventure, Picaresque |
Written |
US, 1876β1883 |
Published |
1884 |
Tone |
Positive, Sympathetic |
Tense |
Past |
Point of View |
First-person limited, from Huck Finnβs perspective |
Themes |
Racism of the pre-Civil War South, Guilt, Empathy, Money, Society and Hypocrisy, Freedom, Growing Up, Intellectual and Moral Education |
Characters |
Colonel Sherburn, The Dauphin, The Duke, The Grangerfords, Huckleberry βHuckβ Finn, Jim, Miss Watson, Pap, Sally, Silas Phelps, Shepherdsons, Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas |
Symbols |
The Mississippi River, The Raft |
Motifs |
Childhood, Lies and Scams, Superstitions and Folk Beliefs |
End |
Jim is free, Huck decides not to return home and to keep wandering instead |
Extra Facts |
1) Huckleberry Finn first appears in 'Tom Sawyer' 2) It took Mark Twain seven years to write the book 3) Huckleberry Finn may be based on Mark Twain's childhood friend 4)The book is frequently banned |