Voice Supremacy
Literature is created by different people; therefore every piece is different from each other. Every writer is inspired by their views and events they experience though out their lives. Sometimes, the real intentions meant to be written by the author are not withheld, and actually interpreted incorrectly. This can become an issue by the actual plot, perhaps the event in history taking place, or sometimes even the words and tone of voice used by a character. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses dialect to construct his characters individuality; yet some readers reject that idea of Twain’s use of language in his book to be good, and prefer to think him as prejudice.
Born and raised in Missouri, Twain was able to captivate the sound and spirit from his childhood and put it into use for his novel. Every character in his novel is different, and that was achieved by their way of speaking. Throughout every word the character says, it is able to define each one. Lee Clark Mitchell agrees when he writes, “Language in the novel more generally seems free-floating, especially as a form of self-definition.” When Huck Finn is read, each one of his characters personality comes alive. An example of this would be his use of words, such as “nigger”. Being a word that promotes racism, the characters who in fact were racist, where the ones who used it.
Besides words, pronunciation was a key factor to personality for his book’s characters; one of his biggest achievements was creating Huck Finn’s voice. It was known to the reader that he was not educated and incredibly young. His childish ways of thinking made a known sense of youthfulness and innocence, which was acceptable, considering that he was only a fourteen year old boy. While compared to his father who also was uneducated, yet a grown man; Mark Twain made him different, by making his words sound cruel and illogical. When compared to all these other characters, Miss Watson and Widow...