Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Difference between revisions

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Again, Old Finn.

* {{spoiler|[[And the Adventure Continues...]]}}:

* [[The Artful Dodger]]: As in ''Tom Sawyer'', Huck is never more miserable than when he's being "sivilized". He eventually gets used to it, {{spoiler|until he ends up [[Walking the Earth|on the run]] again and vows to never go back}}.

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Jim is the [[Ur Example]].

* [[Bowdlerize]]: An edition has recently been released with every incidence of the n-word changed to "slave". In their piece on it, ''[[The Daily Show]]'' pointed out a 1955 TV adaptation that ''wrote Jim out entirely''.

* [[Civilian Villain]]: Old Finn (Huck's father) is a perfect example.

reckoned a body could reform him with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way. }}

* [[Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For]]: Employed to set up a [[Stealth Insult]]--"He didn't charge nothing for his sermons; and it was worth it, too."

* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Literally everyone, including Huck in the narration. There's an author's note at the beginning pointing out that several ''different'' Funetik Aksents are being demonstrated, lest the reader think "that all these characters were attempting to talk alike and not succeeding."

* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Jim telling Huck's dad's fortune:

* [[Groin Attack]]:

** The Duke and the Dauphin were punished by tarring and feathering and being ridden out of town on a rail. This means that they were stripped naked, covered in tar and feathers, and been paraded around town straddling a fresh-cut, splintery fence rail. To be fair, they deserved it.

* [[I'm Going to Hell For This]]: A rare non-comedic example, Huck says this before tearing up a letter to Miss Watson to save Jim himself.

* [[Inconvenient Itch]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] early in the book, when Huck and Tom hide from Jim.

* [[Innocent Bigot]]: Huck. Actually, practically every white person in the book, to some degree. Except the villainous ones, who are just ordinary bigots.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Huck and Jim are 13 and 33, respectively.

* [[Picaresque]]

* [[Plot Hole]] / [[Retcon]]: Or something. The first chapter of ''Huck Finn'' states that ''Tom Sawyer'' was [[Broad Strokes|more or less accurate]]. Huck then spends the rest of the chapter recapping the ending of ''Tom Sawyer'', only with a mind-boggling number of trivial details changed. Notably, over the course of about a week in-story, Tom Sawyer apparently forgets what ransom means and that he ever knew it. There are a fair number of other little differences.

Tom: I don't know. But that's what they do. }}

* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: The book is scathingly anti-slavery, but is often banned from schools for supposed racial insensitivity--it has the n-word in it. In response to [[New South]] Books' plans to release an edition that replaces Twain's many uses of Nigger with the word "slave", there are plans to replace the word N-Word [http://io9.com/#!5762499/a-campaign-to-replace-the-n+word-in-huckleberry-finn-with-the-word-robot with the word Robot] Do see above for [[Fair for Its Day]], though.

* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: In ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'', Tom is pretty clever, but ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' gives his character a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] makeover.

* [[Two Roads Before You]]: Huck deciding whether to [[Irony|do the right thing]] and turn in Jim.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Lampshaded in the famous opening paragraph.

* [[Walking the Earth]]