The setting of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is very unique. It takes place somewhere along the Mississippi River along Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas sometime in the 1830s-1840s. The characters are somewhat uneducated by the means of today's standards. Jim (the slave owned by Miss Watson) is very uneducated due to slaves not having the right to a free, public education. Huck's education isn't very great because he has lived on his own for a while now and since he has been staying with the Widow Douglas he has started going to school, so its getting better but he still has trouble with certain elements of reading and speaking. I would say he has the education of a 9 year old (today's standards) he makes a lot of grammatical errors. Something that is included with the theme could be all of the superstition. Jim is superstitious, as well as Huck and his dad. There isnt a lot of superstition similar to the superstition in this novel that happens in todays society, it makes me think that superstitious people were more common back in the mid 1800's. I think that the superstition will play a major role as the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn continues.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Huckleberry Finn Setting and Theme
The setting of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is very unique. It takes place somewhere along the Mississippi River along Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas sometime in the 1830s-1840s. The characters are somewhat uneducated by the means of today's standards. Jim (the slave owned by Miss Watson) is very uneducated due to slaves not having the right to a free, public education. Huck's education isn't very great because he has lived on his own for a while now and since he has been staying with the Widow Douglas he has started going to school, so its getting better but he still has trouble with certain elements of reading and speaking. I would say he has the education of a 9 year old (today's standards) he makes a lot of grammatical errors. Something that is included with the theme could be all of the superstition. Jim is superstitious, as well as Huck and his dad. There isnt a lot of superstition similar to the superstition in this novel that happens in todays society, it makes me think that superstitious people were more common back in the mid 1800's. I think that the superstition will play a major role as the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn continues.
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I, too, likes how Twain used this unique setting to flesh out the characters in his book.
ReplyDeleteThe way Twain used superstition and dialect was amazing.
Yes, I agree with you when you say that superstition will have a big effect later on in the narrative. Especially with the foreshadow that Jim said at the campsite, about how sooner later the "unlucky' things you do will come back to haunt you in the future..
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with you when you say that superstition will have a big effect later on in the narrative. Especially with the foreshadow that Jim said at the campsite, about how sooner later the "unlucky' things you do will come back to haunt you in the future..
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