Examples Of Realism In Huckleberry Finn
In the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, Huck gets put in a situation where he has an itch on his ankle. Most authors would leave the comment of an itch to just that, but Mark Twain shows realism by expanding the thought of having one itch on his ankle to what really goes through a person’s mind when they have an itch they can not scratch. In many books today, authors omit simple necessities such as taking bathroom trips once every few hours and tending to menstrual cycles. Of course these things occur in real life, but a large bulk of stories neglect to recognize these aspects of life. The realism in this story shows several examples of plain and simple things that happen to normal people. In Dr. doCarmo’s notes