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Study Guide

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Explanatory

By Mark Twain

Explanatory

When our story opens…
Oh, wait, we're not done with the author bit yet.
Twain wants us to know that he was really careful to get the dialect right, so all the different speech patters are intentional.
Basically, he wants us to know that he's an author in charge.