This first sentence also alludes to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By using the first person narrative point of view, Twain carries on the southwestern humor tradition of vernacular language that is, Huck sounds as a young, uneducated boy from Missouri should sound. The opening sentence of the novel notifies readers that Huck Finn is the narrator and will tell his story in his own words, in his own language and dialect (complete with grammatical errors and misspellings), and from his own point of view. When the town clock strikes twelve midnight, Huck hears a noise outside his window and climbs out to find Tom Sawyer waiting for him. Miss Watson tells Huck he will go to 'the bad place' if he does not behave, and Huck thinks that will be okay as long as Miss Watson is not there.ĭuring the evening, Huck accidentally kills a spider that was on his shoulder and worries that bad luck will follow. The sisters are, as Huck puts it, trying to 'sivilize' him, and his frustration at living in a clean house and minding his manners starts to grow.

Judge Thatcher has taken Huck's money and invested it with a dollar of interest coming in each day, and Huck now lives with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Huck gives a brief summary of how he and Tom got six thousand dollars each at the end of Tom Sawyer. 'You don't know about me,' Huck narrates, 'without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter.' He tells readers that, for the most part, Twain told the truth in Tom Sawyer but that everyone tells some lies, even people like Aunt Polly and the Widow Douglas. The novel begins with Huck Finn introducing himself and referencing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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