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...opening chapters Huck??s ignorance humorously undermines accepted social conventions. When a religious widow, after attempting to convince Huck of the benefits of Christianity, asserts that Tom Sawyer won’t be going to Heaven, Huck quips that he is glad he won’t go to Heaven “because I wanted [Tom Sawyer] and me to be together.” Twain extends Huck??s naiveté even further when Huck fails to understand that Tom’s fantasy games are not real. In one scene Huck believes that...
...world’s conventions, he at times possesses astounding insight into how society operates. The temptation of the comedian is to conveniently modify his characters for a few extra laughs. While it is certainly unfair to judge the protagonist of a picaresque novel by the standards of realism, Huck??s inconsistency undercuts some of the comedic power of the book...
...characters. In one instance, Huck fabricates an entire story to convince a ferryman to lead a rescue party to save several people trapped in a sinking riverboat. Yet later, Huck is not able to figure out that the criminals called The Duke and The King are not real royalty. Huck??s capacity to understand and speak the truth seems to change in every scene...
...inconsistencies of society through the eyes of a figure who is not burdened by social preconceptions. But Twain conveniently adapts a narrator with a flexible naiveté, who can alternatively be ignorant of society’s sins and also knowingly participate in them. The consistently shifting innocence of Huck??s personality heightens the comedy throughout the novel, but also sacrifices the some of its substance...
...become. His complaint could serve as a harsh but not wholly inaccurate description of Rawles’ book. Rawles—or perhaps those marketing her—seem to have failed to recognize that the moral complexities My Jim purports to expose are already present in Huck??s own narrative. While Rawles has provided a reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book, her “nuanced critique” articulates few moral problems that weren’t already implicit in the work of her forbearer. The agonistic endgame, the technique...