How The Use Of Storytelling In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Suggesting that Twain fails at properly interconnecting the different methods of storytelling, inconsistent though he historically has been, would be failing to recognize a progression, demonstrated through his own personal history. The author’s preface in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, laying the seeds to follow-up with in Huckleberry Finn, has a significant appeal to “entertainment of boys and girls… (and) men and women… to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves… how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in” (“Preface” IX). Pure-hearted though this might be, both childlike wonder and brilliant ignorance dissipate quickly, as Huckleberry Finn makes a point of figuring