Chapter 36 Mark Twain

In any case, it is difficult for me to explain what I call "American taste", let alone impossible due to space constraints.Generally speaking, the so-called "American taste" in literature refers to what can distinguish an American work from works written by other countries, and what can mark a work with environmental characteristics.There's one guy who does an excellent job at this.He is Mark Twain.His writing presents readers with a rich and authentic American flavor.The achievement of this book, far surpassing his other works, is an out-and-out masterpiece.There was a time when Mark Twain was disapproved because he was a master humorist, and contemporary humor is largely dismissed by scholars.But his death vindicated him, and he is now recognized as a master of American literature.Therefore, I need not say much about him, but only one thing.When Mark Twain tried to write serious literature (such as "Life on the Mississippi"), he wrote all the irrelevant things, but when he wrote, he only wanted to show the immortal hero to the reader, but he didn't know what to do. Wrote a masterpiece.This book was a model for writing in an American vernacular, and it still has, I suspect, a very significant influence on the best and most American writers of our day.Mark Twain told us that the writing style does not have to be inherited from the British writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but can also be taken from the daily conversations of contemporary people.However, it would be foolish to think that Huckleberry Finn's words were borrowed from life.No uneducated boy could utter such concise sentences, and use such modifiers so well.Maybe Mark Twain thought it was undignified to write in the first person so colloquially, so he used a writing technique that we are happy to accept, making readers think that what little Finn said was very true.So far, American literature has finally been liberated from its long shackles.The book is full of changing and novel ideas, full of enthusiasm and vitality, and is a typical novel of tramps.It stands tall enough to hold its head high alongside "Gil Blass" and "Tom Jones," two other masterpieces of the great and famous genre.In fact, the book would have been perfect if Mark Twain hadn't let that uninteresting little fool Tom Sawyer ruin the last few chapters on a whim.