In 1882, Twain took a steamboat ride on the Mississippi from New Orleans to Minnesota, with a stop in Hannibal, Missouri. He stopped working on it for several years to write The Prince and the Pauper and Life on the Mississippi and to recharge in Germany. The first was in 1876, when Twain wrote 400 pages that he told his friend he liked “only tolerably well, as far as I have got, and may possibly pigeonhole or burn” the manuscript. Huckleberry Finn was written in two short bursts. It took Mark Twain seven years to write The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In 1885, when the Minneapolis Tribune asked who Huck was based on, Twain indicated it was no single person: “I could not point you out the youngster all in a lump but still his story is what I call a true story.” 3. “He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.' However, Twain may be exaggerating here. “In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was,” Twain wrote in his autobiography. Twain once said that Huck is based on Tom Blankenship, a childhood friend whose father, Woodson Blankenship, was a poor drunkard and the likely model for Pap Finn. Huckleberry Finn may be based on Mark Twain's childhood friend. Despite this, the other children “wished they dared to be like him.” Huck also appears in Tom Sawyer, Detective, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. He wears cast-off adult clothes and sleeps in doorways and empty barrels. Huck is the “juvenile pariah of the village” and “son of the town drunkard,” Pap Finn.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to Tom Sawyer, Twain’s novel about his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri.

Huckleberry Finn first appears in Tom Sawyer. It remains one of the most loved, and most banned, books in American history. on February 18, 1885-is a subversive confrontation of slavery and racism. But underneath, the book-which was published in the U.S. On its surface, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a straightforward story about a boy and a runaway slave floating down the Mississippi River.

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