QDJ1 Huckleberry Finn Intro

If the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was not written in original folk language, it wouldn't have "sealed the deal". The way Mark Twain wrote this book made us as a reader, believe this story was true. It made me feel like I was standing next to Huck when this book was being written. If you have never lived in the south, it puts us into the southern states and shows how the people in the south talk. The most common phrase that all the southerners use is y'all when they are talking about a group of people. When I am reading this book, the characters remind me of how cowboys talked in the movies. They use a lot of words with parentheses, like aren't and hadn't instead of using the full words like are not and had not. A line that popped out at me in the reading was on the first page, "She put me in them new clothes again...". I have a few friends that speak like this that are from the south. This book was based back when slavery was still an issue and the one word that all white men would use that referred to African-Americans is in this book multiple times. When watching documentaries on the History Channel at home, when they are talking about a historical event, many involve African-Americans. Even learning about slavery in history class helps me have a better understanding of how the theme of the book is wrapped around. Because people may not have listen to other people talk like how the characters in the book are talking, it made it hard to read for some. How Mark Twain used his words in this book made readers believe that they were thrown in a time machine and shot back into time, all because of how the words are used.