Q: Please analyze the character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Language and Style
• (1) First, he possessed utter clarity of style. The novel is written in a language that is totally different from the rhetorical language used by Emerson, Poe, and Melville. It’s not grand, pompous (very formal and important-sounding words), but simple, direct, lucid, and faithful to the colloquial speech. This unpretentious style of colloquialism is best described as “vernacular”. Before him there had been only American dialect; after him there was an American language. His success in creating this plain but evocative language hastened the end of American reverence (great respect and admiration) for British and European culture. His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later writers .