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...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 a traveling troupe of invisible Arabs with two hundred elephants was conjured by a genie. It is only after the incident that Huck reconsiders his gullibility. He “thought all this over for two or three days” and rubs an old lamp hoping to find a genie before...
...contemporary Hipster has a definite spatial prerogative involving dependable access to amenities required for a comfortable, relevant existence. The outplay of this has been a new wave of gentrification in American cities. There is gender and sexual flexibility in the metropolitan Hipster scene, but this comes with the relative safety of increased mainstream and corporate acceptance of queer identities, which the Beats did not have. The music of Hipsters is the mash-up, which rather than putting forth an original and challenging new style of music, plays off the popularity of different mainstream elements that produces something...
...classic offers a medley of colorful characters, memorably presented by his irreverent narrator. Although Huck presents each new figure with a keen eye for the ridiculous, Huck himself is a shifting comedic persona rather than a genuine, grounded character. His personality and world view changes to fit each scene, allowing him to effectively satirize any given situation. Although Huck often seems implausibly ignorant of the 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...
...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...
Twain’s problematic use of comedic flexibility culminates in the novel’s controversial final scene. At the end of the novel, Jim is recaptured after a failed escape attempt and appears to be on the brink of being sold back into slavery. Miraculously, Jim is saved when Tom reveals that the whole escape plan was an elaborate game—Jim was already freed by his mistress on her deathbed. Some critics have criticized this ending as an evasion that allows Twain to avoid dealing with the evils of slavery, while others have defended the scene...