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Essay Archive - Huck Finn's Use of the Tall Tale
Huck Finn's Use of the Tall Tale
In Mark Twain's timeless American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, the narrator often finds himself in undesirable situations. These
situations, which are far-fetched even for the nineteenth-century, provide much
humor to the novel and demonstrate Huck's cunning. Huck's adept use of the tall
tale becomes a survival tool on this adventure.
In the novel, Huck sees lies as more of a practical solution to problems
than as a moral dilemma. He rationalizes that he has "never seen anybody but
lied, one time or another" (1). Unlike the lawless adventurer of the frontier,
Huck does no....
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