Question

Read the excerpts below and answer the question. and the thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then RIP comes another flash and another sockdolager. The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes— "Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn’ hear sumf’n. Well, I know what I’s gwyne to do: I’s gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it ag’in.” In at least 150 words, explain how the dialect used by Huck and Jim in these excerpts contributes to the realism of the story.

Answer 1

Twain’s use of dialect in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contributes to the realism of the story by making the settings and character more convincing  for the readers. By adding accurate social dialects into his story, Twain depicts a truthful vision of the souther society that fits the characters' backgrounds, the time period and the location. This is no exception in the case of Huck and Jim. Jim, in this novel, is a slave who is less educated than the average person; therefore, to make his character more believable to the readers, Jim's way of speaking uses slang, shortened words and improper grammar. This can be seen in phrases like "Whar is you?", "ag'in", "sumf'n", etc.

Answer 2

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Explanation: Realism, as the title itself suggests a literary period where the writers are more inclined towards portraying the subjects as they are in life and depicts an escape from the fictional and imaginative world of earlier writers which had misled people to think of a utopian world. Mark Twain is the master of this art. Along with him, all the realists provided more attention to the characters than the plot. The characters are complex and multi-layered and present an affiliation to authenticity and truthfulness of the inner conflicts of the people which leads to several undesired actions as it happens in day-to-day life and outer reality at that time. The speech pattern of the realist writers are natural and true to life through which the audience could relate themselves which was the key feature of Twain's writings like In "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn" the use of dialects is relating it to the "average person". he has established himself as a pioneer of "American Realism". The way he presents the stories has enriched the literature with a new dimension of realism which is focusing more on reality and psychological developments in the character's mind contrary to previous fabrications of the fictional texts.

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