1/19/05

Mrs. Oshinski

English p.2

The book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain has many

themes in all the different characters that are developed. The story is set

in the Mississippi River valley in the mid 1800's. In the South, they

talked with different accents and a different style of language as the

people do now. Mark Twain uses language and characterization in the story

to develop the characters.

Mark Twain uses many words that aren't real words but variations of

them. Usually, the African Americans say these words but the white people

sometimes used them, too. Some examples of these words are "nigger" and

"Who Dah? and "Whar is You"" In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

has all sorts of people speaking this language. Some examples of the people

are Huckleberry Finn, Jim, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry's father. Mark Twain

uses...