Huckleberry Finn: Controversy At The Heart Of A Classic
As the media outlets from LA Times to CBS will say, ¨Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn: Controversy at the Heart of a Classic¨, ¨ "Huckleberry Finn" and the N-word debate¨,¨Mark Twain: Inexcusable racist or man of his time?¨, Mark Twain was a controversial author. He´s primarily known for his most controversial work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is a story of a runaway boy escaping with a runaway slave. The book is known from all over the world and is a highlight of being a controversy, but who really is the man that wrote it? Before the pen name, Samuel Clemens´ childhood experiences is what lead to the success of Mark Twain's writing.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on Nov. 30 1835. His family consisted …show more content…
He wrote short stories for amusement and was a writer in his brother´s newspaper outlet. He was an apprentice for a steamboat captain but he still kept on his writing throughout and eventually released a few stories during the apprenticeship. His true writings have not occured until he went back home to Hannibal. The two primary ideas Twain drew from are the environment of his hometown and from his past experiences. According to History, ¨he remembered it in Old Times on the Mississippi (1875), the village was a “white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning.” Twain remembered the times he had exploring Hannibal, and he mentioned the areas he wrote in his stories. As a boy, Twain was able to canoe to Glasscock´s Island, which became the setting for Jackson´s island in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Another area he had used in his story is McDowell's cave, which he named McDougal's Cave in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He also remembered the stories and the experiences that he had with people from his childhood, and he incorporated them into his own stories. The reenactments he had done with his friends were a burst of his imagination when he was a child. One of his friends, Tom Blankenship became the model for the character, Huckleberry. In the summer, he used to go to his uncle John Quarles´s farm, where he could play with his cousin. His uncle was a slaveholder, and his slave was named Uncle Daniel. Uncle
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on Nov. 30 1835. His family consisted …show more content…
He wrote short stories for amusement and was a writer in his brother´s newspaper outlet. He was an apprentice for a steamboat captain but he still kept on his writing throughout and eventually released a few stories during the apprenticeship. His true writings have not occured until he went back home to Hannibal. The two primary ideas Twain drew from are the environment of his hometown and from his past experiences. According to History, ¨he remembered it in Old Times on the Mississippi (1875), the village was a “white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning.” Twain remembered the times he had exploring Hannibal, and he mentioned the areas he wrote in his stories. As a boy, Twain was able to canoe to Glasscock´s Island, which became the setting for Jackson´s island in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Another area he had used in his story is McDowell's cave, which he named McDougal's Cave in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He also remembered the stories and the experiences that he had with people from his childhood, and he incorporated them into his own stories. The reenactments he had done with his friends were a burst of his imagination when he was a child. One of his friends, Tom Blankenship became the model for the character, Huckleberry. In the summer, he used to go to his uncle John Quarles´s farm, where he could play with his cousin. His uncle was a slaveholder, and his slave was named Uncle Daniel. Uncle