ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: A REACTION PAPER

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Reaction Paper



Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Reaction Paper

Introduction

In his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Mark Twain used nineteenth-century conventions of American writing about boyhood, but he created a literary classic in the ways he overturned those conventions (West, 2001). The book's main character, Huckleberry Finn, is an American male icon, both in the challenges he faces moving from boyhood to manhood and in the definitions of manhood he witnesses and rejects.

My reaction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck feels constrained by a domestic life that many men in Victorian ...