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Twain's Huck Finn's Use of the Tall Tale
Title: Twain's Huck Finn's Use of the Tall Tale
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 345 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Twain's Huck Finn's Use of the Tall Tale
In Mark Twain's timeless American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
the narrator often finds himself in undesirable situations. These situations, which are far-
fetched even for the nineteenth-century, provide much humor to the novel and
demonstrate Huck's cunning. Huck's adept use of the tall tale becomes a survival tool on
this adventure.
In the novel, Huck sees lies as more of a practical solution to problems than as a
moral dilemma. He rationalizes that …showed first 75 words of 345 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 345 total…changes his story just enough to make it believable, displaying his
unique ability to adjust his tale to within the parameters of believability. Throughout the
novel Huck fools many intelligent people. His youth gives him a mask of innocence, that
people don't want to disbelieve.
Stretching the truth comes naturally to Huck Finn. Although his lies may seem to
show a lack of good ethics, it is the lies themselves that truly show his virtue.
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