2006-12-03 06:28:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
This style of writing greatly influenced American literature, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered an American classic, but it has also had a controversial history.
2006-12-03 06:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
“Classic" is not an absolute term, by any means. But if you need to know for a class or reading assignment, chances are very good that a book that makes it onto a number of college reading lists – and is cited often in databases – is a pretty good bet to be considered a “classic" by the people who give the grades.
2006-12-03 06:34:24 · answer #2 · answered by ebush73 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people have no taste and most Americans are barely literate. Since the typical American stops reading much of anything after High School English, they can only assume that the orthodox viewpoint mindlessly repeated by those teachers is the truth. It's the same reason people like The Great Gatsby and The Glass Menagerie.
2006-12-03 06:31:11 · answer #3 · answered by Riva 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not really that amazing, but it changed writing forever because Mark Twain had his characters sound like who they were. Drunk old men sound like drunk old men. Recalcitrant boys who don't want no eddication sound like boys without an education. Before that all characters talked beautifully, or at least without slurring their wordshhhh...
2006-12-03 06:33:44 · answer #4 · answered by Halcyon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cause it's really old and good.
2006-12-03 06:30:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋