Need thesis statement why Huckleberry Finn is a classic novel !!!!?

Question

I'm writing a research paper, and I need a thesis statement (1-2 sentences) answering the question: "Why is the novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' considered a classic?

The thesis needs to directly relate themes to the story so if you haven't read, please don't respond.

The thesis should be written only on a 9th grade level.

PLEASE!
and thank you...

Answer 1

Well, more than a "sentence", but it might give you some ideas:
It's impossible to read Huck Finn intelligently without understanding that Mark Twain's consciousness and awareness are larger than that of any of the characters in the novel, including Huck. Indeed, part of what makes the book so effective is the fact that Huck is too innocent and ignorant to understand what's wrong with his society and what's right about his ownbehavior. Twain, on the other hand, knows the score. One must be skeptical about most of what Huck says in order to hear what Twain is saying.
By the time he wrote Huckleberry Finn, Samuel Clemens had come to believe not only that slavery was a horrendous wrong, but that white Americans owed black Americans some form of "reparations" for it.
Something new happened in Huck Finn that had never happened in American literature before. It was a book that served as a Declaration of Independence from the genteel English novel tradition. Huckleberry Finn allowed a different kind of writing to happen: a clean, crisp, no-nonsense, earthy kind of writing that jumped off the printed page with immediacy and energy; it was a book that talked. Huck's voice, combined with Twain's satiric genius, changed the shape of fiction in America, and African-American voices had a great deal to do with making it what it was.