One name from American Literature that probably all school children know is Mark Twain. Along with that, one book from American Literature that probably all school children have heard about is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Truly, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a marvel of its own time and is still a great classic today as it illustrates for its reader the pre-civil war South far beyond anything one could imagine. The book itself …showed first 75 words of 915 total…

…showed last 75 words of 915 total…but there are also points in the novel where the criticism is so harsh, it almost makes one want to take a break from reading it and go find something cheerful to take their mind off of the book. However, with out these elements of satire and criticism, the whole of the book would be laid bear and be nothing more then words going together telling a story of a boy floating down a river.