the important part so far as our interest in Mark Twain’s attitudes is concerned. For it is this part that Twain studies and reflects on the changes that time and the war have made in the South. He tells us about the good things that are happening-there are schemes to acclimate the Negro to responsible freedom, to raise the standard of living through industrialization, and to harness the mighty river’s power. Twain also tells us what he thinks caused the War, the poor state of the Southern economy, and the social injustices and stupidities he finds in Southern life. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered Twain’s masterpiece. Ernest Hemingway claimed that all modern American literature comes from Huckleberry Finn and his own prose, which also seeks to convert the truth of actual experience into style suited to the American ethos, owes a debt to Twains book.7 Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the United States in 1885. For a time, newspapers remained silent about the novel. They broke their silence after it was banned by a library committee in Concord, Massachusetts. Twain didn’t mind the set back, but he did mind the critical remarks thrown at the novel. Critics, including the author Louisa May Alcott as well as local newspapers writers, stoned the book with harsh words.“If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure mined lads andlasses, he had best stop writing books for them.” Critics fought to keep the novel away from young readers, fearing that they, like Huck, might learn to steal, lie, use poor grammar, and run away. But others applauded the novel, pointing out that it painted a real picture of riverside life in the pre Civil War Era.Brander Matthews wrote,“It would take generations before we Americans generally discover how great a book “Huckleberry Finn” ...
