Huck Finn as the Narrator Mark Twain chose Huck Finn to be the narrator
to make the story more realistic and so that Mark Twain could get the
reader to examine their own attitudes and beliefs by comparing themselves
to Huck, a simple uneducated character. Twain was limited in
expressing his thoughts by the fact that Huck Finn is a living, breathing
person who is telling the story. Since the book is written in first
person, Twain had to put himself in the place of a thirteen-year-old son
of the town drunkard. He had to see life as Huck did and had to create a
character that could see life as Mark Twain saw it. Huck is more than
Twain's mouthpiece because he is a living character and is capable of
shaping the story. The l
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