MARK TWAIN AND "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN" Mark Twain was born on the Missouri frontier and spent his childhood there. His real name is actually Samuel Langhorne Clemens. At the age of 12 he left school to earn a living. At the age of 15 he already wrote his first article and at the age of 16 he published his first short novel. In 1857 he was an apprentice steamboat pilot on a boat leaving the Mississippi and heading for New Orleans. His characters were created because of the people and situations he encountered on this journey. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the sequel to "Tom Sawyer". "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is one of the masterpieces of American literature. It was first published in America in January 1885. Of all Mark Twain's novels, this was the only one that sold best on its first appearance. Although it was also highly criticized. In 1885 it was even banned from the Concord Public Library. The novel presents the things that a thirteen-year-old boy goes through when he tries to save a black slave from the woman who wanted to adopt him and educate him to meet the standards of the society he lived in. lives. The two characters, on their journey, meet some dangerous people, such as the three thieves they meet on a crashed steamboat, but also some good characters, such as the Grangerford family who treated Huck very well. The Duke and the King are also two characters that Huck and Jim meet during their journey along the Mississippi River. These two earn money by deceiving people in towns near the river. After a while the Duke and King sell Jim, saying he is a runaway slave from New Orleans. Huck decides to save Jim so he follows him to the house where he was sold, only to find......paper medium......sional but shocking to white society. He meets a group of slave hunters and then discovers that telling a lie is sometimes good for you. Since he was a child the world always seems new to him, everything he finds or encounters is an opportunity that makes him reflect. After a while, Huck returns to town dressed as a girl to find more news. He discovers that Jim and Pap are suspects in his murder. On this trip Huck and Jim become friends. Even if his background pushes him not only to apply the rules he knows, but also to invent new ones. He struggles with society's ideas about blacks. "Huck represents what anyone is capable of becoming: a thinking, feeling human being rather than a mere cog in the machine of society."POINTS OF REFERENCEhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/huckfinn/shortsumm.htmlhttp: / /www.sparknotes.com/lit/huckfinn/