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Huckleberry Finn Book Report - College Essay

Huckleberry Finn Book Report


THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. When Samuel Clemens was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he spent his childhood. Clemens first approach to literature was through typesetting for a newspaper in 1851. At the time Orion, his brother, was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. From 1857 until 1861, he served as the pilot of a riverboat on the Mississippi River. He later used this experience in creating his novels. His first writings appeared in a newspaper on February 2, 1863 under the pen name “Mark Twain.”
Clemens fell in love with Olivia Langdon and ...

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character of the novel and the son of the town drunk.

Jim - Miss Watson’s runaway slave whom Huck helps to gain his freedom.

Pap - Huck’s father who comes back to town when he learns about the reward.

Tom Sawyer – Huck’s friend who is about his same age.

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

(1) Setting

The setting of Huckleberry Finn was in mid Eighteenth Century America. The first few chapters were set in St. Petersburg, Missouri. The town was patterned after Hannibal, Missouri, where Clemens spent his childhood. It is located on the Mississippi River about 80 miles from St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the novel’s setting is on the Mississippi River south of St. Petersburg.

(2) Beginning Situation

Huck Finn, a boy of about 12 years, was the son of the town drunk. Widow Douglas adopted him so that she could civilize him and raise him to be a gentleman. Huck did not like going to school, attending church or dressing up. Tom Sawyer, Ben ...

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