Eureka!

Eureka! I have found it! A literary period that makes sense to me has finally come to my attention. I never understood the idea of transcendentalism and romaticism. Realism is my kind of writing. The truth will set you free. I truly enjoy the eye opening we, as readers, receive through the writing of this time. Twain addresses that no human being is perfect, essentially we are all failures in God's eyes. We, as a society, look down our noses at other people becuase they seem to be "less" than us, the gutter rats, the prostitutes, the single parents. Twain bluntly points out, no you are no better than the man who spends every night in the bar. I like this in hiw writing. I like the idea of the truth and not putting any on up on a pedestal. I like that Twain is also writing during a time where the nation was split on such a controversial issue, slavery. Huck Finn befriended a run away slave and even though that was wrong in society's eyes at that time, Huck knew what was morally right and morally wrong. It is morally wrong to judge someone by the color of their skin rather than their true character. Twain made some amazingly bold statements in a novel that could be considered a simple story with no underlying theme. I like reading realist writing. Eureka!