There are several reasons why Twain chooses a young boy to tell the story in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. First of all, Huck originally showed up in the story, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Tom’s sidekick. Twain took the character, Huck, and developed a more symbolic picaresque novel that contained satire and the rite of passage of a young boy. Twain wanted The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to be more than just...
<span>The speaker retells a story from Greek mythology, the rape of the girl Leda by the god Zeus, who had assumed the form of a swan. Leda felt a sudden blow, with the “great wings” of the swan still beating above her. Her thighs were caressed by “the dark webs,” and the nape of her neck was caught in his bill; he held “her helpless breast upon his breast.” </span>
<span>The act of slowly investigating a passage of literature to understand its imagery and meaning is called A summary.</span>
