Huck Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a wonderfully rich novel by Mark Twain. I greatly enjoyed the usage of different dialects throughout the novel. Each one designated a different social class with the wealthier class of people having a more fluent way of speaking, what would be called proper English. The next class is the lower or working man's class which is often spelled wrong but when sounding it out it still comes across as fairly close to proper English without the use of big words or rhetoric. Finally the African American class is completely misspelled and words run together so that it seems they are almost speaking a different language to be interpreted at times. These three modes of speaking add color and add to the appeal of the novel. It brings the reader into the story to the point that one feels like they are a part of the story, plus it gives even more personality development to the characters.
Also important throughout this novel is the interplay between religion, superstition and Huck Finn. Huck Finn begins thinking that both superstition and religion are nothing real and unimportant. Huck needs proof of everything and he finds both to be lacking in the proof area. Of the two he believes in superstition more because he has seen evidence of the bad luck that follows touching a snake skin for instance. However he doesn't believe in all superstitions and still is more of a rationalist. Religion he finds complete fault in because he has no proof of it at all. In fact he feels like he has evidence against it in that during the feuding section of the book they go to church and the sermon is about brotherly love and everyone says how good the sermon was but very soon afterwards they are almost all dead because of the feud. So Huck's reliance on reason is also how he decides what is morally right. As long as it doesn't hurt anybody and it helps him it is ok to do it.