The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by American writer Mark Twain and a sequel to the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was first published in 1884.
The hero of the story is Huckleberry Finn, who meets the readers in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry is a clever, kind and brave white boy.
In pursuit of a free life, he fled to the Mississippi River. On the way to escape, he met Jim, a black slave. Jim is a hardworking, simple, enthusiastic, honest and loyal slave. In order to escape the fate of being betrayed by his master again, he fled his master's home. Two people have experienced all kinds of adventures.
This novel has many innovations in ideas and techniques. The novel praises the boy Huckleberry's wit and kindness, condemns the hypocrisy of religion and the ignorance of believers, and at the same time creates a dignified slave image.
Creation background
In the United States around 1850, that is, the era described in this book, besides the corruption of political life, the deepening of labor-capital contradiction, the hypocrisy of the church and the suffering of the people, the most urgent and serious problems are slavery and racial discrimination, which are both common and rampant in southern States.
The author shows a fighting attitude towards all these unreasonable phenomena, and gives warm sympathy and support to the persecuted blacks in a clear-cut manner.
Twain's original intention was to treat this story as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and he planned to write it until Huck came of age. After writing a few pages, Twain changed the name of his work to The Autobiography of Huckleberry Finn. After several years of writing, Twain gave up the plan.
As the story became more and more difficult, Twain seemed to lose interest in writing and simply put the manuscript aside. After traveling in the Hudson River, Mark Twain began to write again. The work is finally finished, and it has a title "Huckleberry Finn (Comrade tom sawyer)" juxtaposed with the first half.