Everyone knows that any story with such a dark theme needs a little comic relief every now and then. Huck Finn is told in the first person by the fictional character Huckleberry Finn himself. The novel begins with Huck introducing his story as if he were a person in real life. “You don't know me without reading a book called 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that doesn't matter” (Twain 3). As we delve into the novel, the reader already has a fairly clear idea of Huck's personality. He takes himself seriously without being a boring character to read about. Every single character in the book has their own different dialect to show uniqueness. «Your old father still doesn't know what he will have to do. Sometimes he predicts that he will go, and then specifies that he will stay” (Twain 20). The way Jim speaks shows that his knowledge of the English language is minimal. All characters have a special way of speaking. Pap's speech seems to stand out less intelligently. “Wanderer-wanderer: those are the dead; tramp-tramp-tramp; they are hunting me; but I won't go... Oh, I'm here! don't touch me, no! hands off: they are cold; let go… Oh, let the poor devil alone!” (Two 31). This quote makes it clear that Pap wasn't the best father to Huck. The cross-examination
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