Mark Twain s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - 1752 Words

A study done by Google in the early 2000s, showed was shown that there is still a drastic difference between regions in the United States where searches containing the word â€Å"nigger† were concentrated and where they were virtually nonexistent by comparison. Searches for the word â€Å"nigger† were used as the metric since that word is usually used in a derogatory sense and is considered very offensive. The study showed that the most racist places in America were in the South and along the Appalachian Mountains into New England which were pro-slavery in the 1850s (Ingraham). In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the setting is somewhere around 1840 in the areas surrounding the Mississippi River, and there were different standards†¦show more content†¦Twain was not afraid to use the dialect of the time, and it helped create that realism that was unparalleled at the time. At one point in the book, Pap says, â€Å"When they told me there wa s a state in this country where they’d let a nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote again†¦..I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?† (Twain 24) This is a clear example of Pap showing his blatant racism. He says that he will never vote again because a he saw a black person voting; he even goes as far to say that they should take the man who was voting and sell him at an auction as a slave. The book also was groundbreaking in that â€Å"more than any other major work of the nineteenth-century American literature, its use of regional settings made it seem authentically and distinctively American† (Mintz). It showed off the true American view of people, and even though it was not a flattering view, it was a novel that displayed the truth. It showed off Americans as they were, being the first novel to do it. Mintz also said, â€Å"Huckleberry Finn is the first major novel in which the narrator speaks in d ialect†¦ Twain’s narrator speaks in a distinctly natural American voice.† Twain’s use of the