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Huckleberry Finn Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Author: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Author Works: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain: Mark Twain is one of America’s best authors and the most famous. Mark twain was born in 1835 on November 30 in Florida, Missouri. Florida and Hannibal, Missouri is where he got his ideas for Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Twain was an avid traveler he went to many places in his time; all aver the world. To write he observed people doing there everyday lives. He got many awards from colleges universities and others; He died On April 21, 1910. Illustrator: none Setting: Some of the book is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri. But most of the book is set in and on the Mississippi River. The City is about 80 miles away from St. Louis. But The Book is in Eighteenth Century America. Characterization: Huck Finn: the main Character of the book, son of the town drunk. He is 12 yrs old. Clever and knows a lot about life. Jim: the run away slave of Miss Watson helps Huck gain freedom. Travels with him. Widow Douglas: Huck’s guardian who adopts him and wants to civilize him. Takes care of huck, jim, huckleberry, adventures, tom, book, twain, river, phelps, father, back, away, two, sawyer, raft, people, out, missouri, huck’s, finds, about, widow, treasure, travels, town, thinks, theme, tells, takes, st, son, sold, slavery, slave, set, pap, one