Essay Archive - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn as the Narrator
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn as the Narrator
Mark Twain chose Huck Finn to be the narrator to make the story
more realistic and so that Mark Twain could get the reader to examine their
own attitudes and beliefs by comparing themselves to Huck, a simple
uneducated character.
Twain was limited in expressing his thoughts by the fact that Huck
Finn is a living, breathing person who is telling the story. Since the
book is written in first person, Twain had to put himself in the place of a
thirteen-year-old son of the town drunkard. He had to see life a....
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