Huck Finn's Use Of The Tall Tale
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In Mark Twain's timeless American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, the narrator often finds himself in undesirable situations. These
situations, which are far-fetched even for the nineteenth-century, provide much
humor to the novel and demonstrate Huck's cunning. Huck's adept use of ....
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.... " (110). Huck's tall tales are used for the survival of both Huck and
Jim, and Jim knows this.
Huck's stories are usually believed, but even when doubted, he manages
to change his fib just enough to make it believable. An example of this is when
he is caught as a stow-away on a raft and his original story is not believed by
the crew: "Now, looky-here, you're scared, and so you talk wild. Honest, now,
do you live in a scowl, or is it a lie?" (106). Huck then changes his story
just ....
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