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Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn; A Real Fiction Novel

While Mark Twain’s imagination takes center stage in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and creates a world in which his characters are caught in implausible circumstances and situations, it nevertheless should not lose any credibility of its realism and of how things truly were in the Old South during slavery. A real fiction novel is often described as a plot that possesses realistic settings, situations and occurrences. It provides believable story lines and never leaves you guessing if something in the plot really could have happened.
However, on the other end of the fiction spectrum is the fantasy fiction novel. The fantasy fiction novel’s lines are purposely filled with adventure and sometimes unbelievable happenings. It gives the imagination a wild and amusing ride, but it doesn’t allow you to relate the plot to everyday life. What Twain has done in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is combine the two - real fiction and fantasy fiction - to assemble what many consi...

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