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Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a sequel to his best-selling children's book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The only place he finds tranquility is on the river with Jim. From his own father's shack to the house of the apparently genteel Grangerfords to the Phelps farm where Jim is enslaved and Tom is shot, Huck is immersed in deadly violence.

Huckleberry Finn's world is a brutal one.

Because of its plainspoken voice, the book is considered by many to be the most influential work of fiction in American literature. Huck is an uneducated boy from a particular region of the country, and the language and sentence structure in which he tells his story reflect that.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was one of the first novels to be written entirely in dialect.

The three most important aspects of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Movie Versions: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) Tom and Huck (1995) Major Symbols: the Mississippi River rafts guilt Major Thematic Topics: racism freedom versus civilization slavery realism versus idealism societal pressure expectations Main Characters : Huckleberry Finn Jim Duke King Pap Finn Widow Douglas Miss Watson Tom Sawyer Setting: Primarily along the banks of the Mississippi River Genres: bildungsroman (coming of age novel)

By allowing Huck to tell his own story, Mark Twain addresses America's painful contradiction of racism and segregation in a "free" and "equal" society. Huck soon sets off on an adventure to help the widow's slave, Jim, escape up the Mississippi to the free states. Readers meet Huckleberry Finn after he's been taken in by Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, who intend to teach him religion and proper manners.