Regionalism in Twain’s Huck Finn
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Regionalism in Twain’s Huck Finn
The novel is a regionalism literature because it depicts the way of characters from diverse geographical locations like the south, Mississippi and the north. Regionalism can be seen in the experiences Huckleberry has with people and nature in the dry land and the Mississippi River.
In chapter 1, Huck says that a spider crawled up his shoulder as a negative sign. This is an educated white man from the South. In chapter 2 Jim says how he was bewitched. Jim was a black slave that was uneducated and had not grown up in a free life. But we see both of them having almost similar belief system. Both being from the South, it was a depiction of their superstitions as influenced by culture and region (Twain, 1990).
In the Mississippi, we see when Pap is drunk in chapter 5 and in his orgy expresses the attitude of the people from the South about slavery and talks about voting rights of black people. This indicates that those in Free State in the North were more liberal. Later, Jim is found to have stolen a dress and the people want to kill him to scare away black people from attempting to escape. Still we meet people in the same region as Pap but who have the blacks and support slavery.
Huck and Jim drift southwards in the Mississippi because at first, the river seemed a happy haven as it gave them freedom. From chapter 16, they get into one problem after another. Solving the problems get them involuntarily moving southwards and losing focus of their destination. It is symbolic of the difficulty in escaping the slavery in the south (Twain, 1990).

References
Twain, M. (1990). The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Champaign, IL: Project