2. “A sound heart” is a good heart. “A deformed conscience” is a conscience influenced by the laws of society and a sense of duty toward those laws Mark Twain described the major theme of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “A sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision, and conscience suffers defeat.”

3. Twain’s world Huck Finn written as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Written after the Emancipation Proclamation The country was still confused with regards to race

4. “By the mark, twain”— Racism became worse, with African American’s being persecuted for trivial and unfair reasons Twain used this confusion to create his society Today the novel is seen as an exploration and historical look at the racial and moral world of the 1880’s. The novel is considered Twain’s masterpiece

5. Narrator & Protagonist – Huck Finn Characters Jim Pap Tom Duke and King Setting Before the Civil War; roughly 1835–1845 The Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri

6. The world as portrayed in the novel Huck Fights against authority Torn between what he is told and what he thinks Has some aspects of childhood innocence Believes in a different type of education Society Ruled by fears and prejudices Shown as both good and bad The wealthy class is highlighted Education is key Religion

7. Themes Racism & Slavery Intellectual and Moral Education The Hypocrisy of “Civilized” Society

8. Terms Symbol: Where you have something that represents something else. – Ex: The river represents the need for freedom Irony: Where you expect one thing to happen, but the opposite occurs. Paradox: A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true: the paradox that standing is more tiring than walking

9. Terms Satire: A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. Anti-thesis: the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in “action, not words” or “they promised freedom and provided slavery

10. Terms Colloquialisms: only appropriate for casual, ordinary, familiar, or informal conversation rather than formal speech or writing

11. The Legacy Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind-this was mimicked by many American authors. Upon Twain’s death, he was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age, and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature.” Hemingway wrote : “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”