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Literature ― Analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. D epartment of Language System A7KM1040 Crystal. Brief Introduction(1). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain in 1884. There are two main characters:
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Literature― Analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Department of Language System A7KM1040 Crystal
Brief Introduction(1) • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain in 1884. • There are two main characters: Huck Finn: A young boy that seeks to run away from home. He is smart and efficient. Huck is the orphan of an absentee father and a deceased mother. He is uncivilized in manner and habit. He desires to flee his life, living on a raft, floating down the Mississippi River and doing as he pleases. Jim: A slave on Miss Watson's Plantation who later escapes and becomes Huck's first true friend. He is searching for his family and freedom. He is very superstitious and religious.
Brief Introduction(2) • Racism...A major part of the novel, because as a black man fleeing slavery, Jim faces many struggles. He is constantly reminded of the dangers of running and is threatened by his capture. He is also forced to accept the fact that his race makes him inferior to a white, and even a friend like Huck is still of higher status. Huck and Jim overcome the race barrier, only after Huck overcomes the inner struggle of whether to save Jim or not. Huck's idea of racism is based on his upbringing, but he himself questions the validity of these statements of black inferiority.
Brief Introduction(3) • Friendship:Huck never had a true meaningful friendship. He found this completely, devoted, caring, generous individual in Jim as they traveled together. Although Jim was black, Huck learned that race didn't matter, and that Jim really loved him and would protect him from harm. Huck at first battled with the issue of supremacy by teasing Jim and playing jokes on him which made him feel ignorant. When Huck realized Jim had feelings and could be hurt, and that he missed his family, it became easy for Huck and Jim to remain friends because he realized that aside from skin color, they had similarities.
Brief Introduction(4) • Lessons/ morals Huck learns that although society has taught him to regard blacks as inferior, he should listen to his own opinion, even if it meanssacrificing his reputation and being labeled. He realized this when he befriended Jim and went out of his way to secure Jim's freedom, by risking his own safety and name. Huck also learned that although people in his life may have hurt him, he is able to be loved and to love back. He learns this when his friendship with Jim evolves, and they become like family. Huck is able to love Jim back, and is willing to help him escape slave if it will attain happiness.
Encoding in this novel • The brief introduction was the basic knowledge which Mark Twain put in his novel. • However, facing the same novel, with the premise of admitting the novel’s greatness, different people still have different comments on it. • This can be well explained by Stuart Hall’s theory of “Encoding and Decoding”
Stuart Hall’s “Encoding and Decoding”(1) In sociologist Stuart Hall’s “Encoding and Decoding”, • He mentions that the receiver’s decoding process can be influenced by many factors: age, occupation, academic background, social class, and ethnicity. • Decoding includes three types: a. dominant-hegemonic type.( power of the people in control ) b. negotiated code. (reach an agreement ) c. oppositional or aberrant type.
Stuart Hall’s Communication(2) Hall’s “Cultural Circuit” of Message Production and Processing Encoding and Decoding. programme as “meaningful discourse” encoding meaning decoding meaning structures 1 structures 1 frameworks frameworks of knowledge of knowledge ……………………. ………………. Relations of Relations of Production production …………………… ……………… Technical technical infrastructure infrastructure
Decoding in this novel • Ernest Hemingway(a novelist ) famously said that: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” • T.S.Eliot (a poet ) said that the novel started the new style of writing and is the new finding in English. • Chinese scholars:The Pursuit of Realm of Freedom--An Analysis of Huck's Moral development in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A tentative Analysis of Colloquialism in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Take a rose (picture) as example: a. For lovers, it stands love. b. For doctors, it can be made into medicine. c. For ladies, it can be used in cosmetology d. For cooks, it can be made into foods. e. For brewers, it was the material of good wine. f. For housewives, it can get rid of the peculiar smell in the house. . . . Another Example
Conclusion • The receives do not always exactly decode the senders’ messages, because messages are often be intervened by various factors.
