How Is Imagery Used In Huckleberry Finn

Authors use language to help readers more vividly relate to the writer's text and its meaning. The novel titled The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain takes place in Missouri around the 1830’s. One main character is a boy named Huck who readers get the perspective of. Huck has an unfit father and the other main character is Jim who is a slave. At this time Slavery was supported by most people with white skin color. Missouri during the time of this novel happened to be a state where slavery was legal. Huck and Jim travel south on the Mississippi River to eventually make it to the eastern, anti slavery parts of the United States. Huck wanted to leave the state he was previously in because he was kidnaped by his alcoholic father who made Huck fear for his life. Jim was a slave who escaped with hucks with the goal to make it to a free state and make enough money to buy his family out of slavery. Mark Twain brings the

Huck is on a canoe sailing through the river with Jim after they depart with the Grangerford family. Huck describes, “Then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around: then the river softened up away off, and warn’t black anymore, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting ever so far away”(Twain 150). This absence of life and disruptions illustrates twain's writing of rivers being free of problems because every time they are on land, they run into conflict. In addition, Huck tells readers how time flies when he is on the raft. Huck narrates, “Two or three days and nights went by ; I reckon I might say they swam by, they slid along so quietly and lovely”(Twain 150). These instances show the undisturbed steadiness of the seclusion in the Mississippi River. Authors use literary devices such as imagery to convey meaning and make characters feel understandable while traveling the