But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking-thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.

Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr.

So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote: Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. At last I had an idea and I says, I'll go and write the letter-and then see if I can pray. So I was full of trouble, full as I could be and didn't know what to do. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. I was letting ON to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. It was because my heart warn't right it was because I warn't square it was because I was playing double. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license ( ).“It made me shiver. Just as entertainment and reflection, he has expressed his own thoughts and expectations by means of this kind of “absurd” ending. Besides, it also analyzed the characteristics of the language use, which included methods of realizing humorous effect used by Twain, such as exaggeration and irony. Moreover, it also contributes to reveal the major theme of the whole story.

In this study, it has analyzed different characters of various heroes at the beginning, which can help readers understand what kind of heroes would be like in the novel. The novel takes it as a clue to describe the adventures along Mississippi of Huck and Jim. As a famous American realistic novelist, Mark Twain’s masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn presents the vivid picture of American society in the 19th century.

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