Part one of term paper
“The San Francisco Chronicle” pronounced Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn his most notable and well written books. The Mississippi region is far better depicted in this novel than in his earlier Life on the Mississippi. An accurate account is made of the lifestyle and times of the Southwest nearly fifty years prior to the c ...

Part two of term paper
... in the illustrations he paints of the characters. Pap, Huck’s father, is one of the prime examples. Twain has the ability to create a portrait in short sketches as well as long. It is this ability that pulls the reader into the great American story. Along with detail and concise character depiction, Twain intertwines humor. The Duke and the King contribute to some of the most amusing humor throughout the course of their “work” trying to imitate heirs of the late Peter Wilks. It is “fe ...