Huck+Finn

On your Wiki page this week you will be building information on the idea of 'Who is Mark Twain as a person?' and "Why would he write a novel like Huckleberry Finn?' Don't wait too long to finish this project. Next week you will also create a page where you will compare and contrast two critiques--one favorable critique and one not so favorable--on the novel //Huckleberry Finn. Remember to look at your Wiki rubrics for the fine points of your grade//

====The name Mark Twain derives from a term used on the Mississippi that meant the river was around 12 feet deep. This allowed the steam boat to make a safe passage through the river. Twain adopted this name while piloting a steam boat on the Mississippi. ====

 I think that Twain wrote the novel Huckleberry Finn because he grew up by the Mississippi. While he was a child he seen first hand the cruelties of life; poverty, drunkenness, and loneliness. Not many writers at the time wrote about African Americans, especially feed slaves but Mark Twain did. I believe that this is due to the Twain watching a white slave overseer murder a slave with a piece of iron. He modeled Tom Sawyer as his own childhood self.