Mark TwainHuckleberry

FinnDialect and Local Color

Rachel ChoiEunice JangDaniel Lee

Who is Mark Twain?

•Born in 1835, died in 1910

•Pen name: Mark Twain

•Real name: Samuel Clemens

•Used his personal experiences for his novels

•Innocents Abroad (1869): own travels•Life on Mississippi (1883): riverboat pilot•Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884): boyhood

•Theme of realism in his novels

About Adventures of Huckleberry FinnWritten by Mark Twain in 1884

First modern American novel

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn" – Earnest Hemingway

One of the great American literary achievements

Short SummaryRiver adventures of a boy and a slave

Explore morality, conscience, and society

Setting: time of slavery in the U.S.

Tom vs. HuckTom: interested in the adventure of the escape

Huck: interested in liberating Jim

Concept of slavery: Right or wrong? Who belongs to whom?

Quote Analysis 1""The nigger run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. So there's a reward out for him -- three hundred dollars. And there's a reward out for old Finn, too -- two hundred dollars." (Ch. 11. Mrs. Loftus)

When Huck visits the town with his girl dress, he hears the rumor.

Runaway slaves were found quite often in the South

Local color: slavery during this time

Quote Analysis 2“I ain't going to hurt you, and I ain't going to tell on you, nuther.” (Ch. 11. Mrs. Loftus)

: I am not going to hurt you, and I am not going to tell on you, either

Mrs. Loftus finds out that Huck is a boy, and tells him to identify himself, in this scene.

Double negatives: ain’t & nuther (neither) are traits of Southern dialect.

Discussion Questions

Why is dialect and local color important in literature?

What other ways, besides the ways I listed on the PowerPoint, could be used for dialect and local color of the specific region?

Answer not on this PowerPoint we will discuss

in class!

What is Local Color?Fiction or verse which emphasizes its setting

Concerned with the district, era, customs, dialects, costumes, landscape, clothes, language, traditions, and other peculiarities

Dual influence of romanticism and realism

First local color writer: Bret Harte

Ex) Location: South Speech: Southern dialect

Mark Twain: great job with local color

Characters’ looks, speeches, acts, etc.

Vernacular

Specific dialect in a region

Boston

Georgia

Kansas

Intension: to make the story realistic

Huck Finn Video & Audio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyXLZsjlhs&feature=PlayList&p=6BDB04E5E6B302DC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

Beginning, 2:48,5:30

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