The Writing Styles of Mark Twain

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In this article, the writer notes that the unique writing style of the American novelist and humorist Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, is known for its humor, and for its many and varied, satirical and sarcastic literary elements. The writer points out that Mark Twain's writing style, especially within the greatest, critically speaking, of all of his literary works, his novel, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is controversial, however, due to his frequent use of the word "nigger" to describe black people, and to describe the runaway slave Jim in particular. In this essay, the writer analyzes satirical, sarcastic and controversial elements typical of Mark Twain's writing style, especially as these pertain to his controversial novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.

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"Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains myriad personal and social conflicts, mainly on the part of its narrator, Huck, between what his conscience tells him and what society of the time (the pre-Abolition American South) believes. This conflict that runs through the book is, in fact, the root of much of Mark Twain's satire, sarcasm, and irony within it, in terms of the book's playful yet (underlying) serious tone, as well as its controversial content. The story of Huckleberry Finn's secretive and often dangerous trip down the Mississippi River, accompanied by Miss Watson's now-escaped slave Jim ..."

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• "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Wikipedia. May 15, 2006. Retrieved May 15, 2006, from: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn .html>.
• Baym, Nina, et al. "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)." In The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1865-1914, Vol. C. (Nina Baym et al., Eds.). New York, Norton, 2003. 212-215.
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