Dialect
The dialect of the book was strange to me it is a dialect that I rarely hear and I do not encounter that much people who speak like that. The dialect was historically accurate to the time period and from what I know the people of the 1800s did speak like that. The character that had the most strange dialects so far in the story was the African American named Jim. It makes sense that depending on the social class determined how low class or high class a character sounded. The only dialect that I hear the most would be the high class dialect. The dialect of the book proves how the dialect we use today has changed over time.
I do agree with you about the dialect then is not spoken as much now in our time. However, you can still hear very few people who speak similarly to Huck and Tom, and it is hard to hold conversations with them if you are not familiar with their dialect.
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