However, Huck stays with the Widow and Miss Watson because Tom tells him that, if Huck doesn’t stick with his life in straight-laced civilization, he can’t join Tom’s gang. Huck resents the “sivilized” lifestyle that the widow imposes on him. He explains that at the end of that book, he and his friend Tom Sawyer discovered a robber’s cache of gold and consequently became rich, but that now Huck lives with a good but mechanical woman, the Widow Douglas, and her holier-than-thou sister, Miss Watson. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1962.Huckleberry Finn introduces himself as a character from the book prequel to his own, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960. The book follows Huck's and Jim's adventures rafting down the Mississippi River, where Huck gradually rejects the values of the dominant society, especially its views on slavery. Huck's attempt to help Jim, a runaway slave, reunite with his family makes it difficult for him to understand what is right and wrong. They represent an artificial life that Huck wishes to escape. He is being raised by Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas, both of whom blindly accept the hypocritical religious and moral nature of their society and try to help Huck understand its codes and customs. Huck Finn, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, is around thirteen or fourteen years of age. But by the end of the twentieth century, its status as one of the greatest of American novels was almost universally recognized. Huckleberry Finn was first attacked during Twain's day because of what some described as its indecency later, it would be attacked as racist. Twain's use of the word "nigger" later led some schools and libraries to ban the book. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885, and in that year the public library in Concord, Massachusetts, became the first institution to ban the novel.
Ernest Hemingway wrote that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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