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A 5 page paper which summarizes and then analyzes Jane Smiley’s essay “Say It Ain’t So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain’s ‘Masterpiece.” No additional sources cited.
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of all time. It is touted as a masterpiece, a classic tale of a more innocent time, and also a novel that has served to offer standards by which American
writing is judged. In her essay "Say It Aint So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twains Masterpiece," Jane Smiley reads the novel, anew from an adults perspective, and notes that
it is not really a masterpiece at all, and that it possesses many literary flaws. The following paper summarizes her essay and then presents an analysis and argument of her
essay. Say It Aint So, Huck As mentioned, Jane Smiley argues that Twains novel is not really a classic, or should not be considered as a classic that
is a masterpiece. She first presents the reader with the reasoning behind this by indicating that in the early 20th century Twains work was part of what seems to almost
be a conspiracy by other authors, a conspiracy to raise his novel up to heights it did not belong: "[H]is real elevation into the pantheon was worked out early in
the Propaganda Era, between 1948 and 1955, by Lionel Trilling, Leslie Fiedler, T. S. Eliot, Joseph Wood Krutch, and some lesser lights" as they put out articles in various journals,
claiming Twains work was a masterpiece (Smiley). Smiley then moves on to illustrate the history of Hucks writing. She indicates that at a particular point in the book,
Twain put it aside for a few years. When he came back there were changes made, and the flow of the book altered obviously, with no powerful strength to the
character of Huck, who was previously very heroic and clever. Suddenly Huck had no answers to the problem relating to the slave Jim. There is mention of racism, and
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