Huckleberry Finn All famous American authors have written novels

using a variety of characters, plots, and settings to illustrate important

themes. Throughout literary history many of the same themes have

been stressed in different novels. In J. D. Salinger''s The Catcher in the

Rye and Mark Twain''s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, each

author writes about the common theme of coming of age. The two

novels were written more than half a century apart about two boys

who seem like complete opposites, yet they bear striking

resemblances to each other. Each author wrote his book depicting

settings from his own past and based the plots on personal

experiences. While the two novels are in different times and places,

they have remarkably similar characters, plots, and themes. To

completely understand the two novels, it is necessary to know about

each author''s background and how he got the ideas to write them. J.

D. Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City. His father

was a Jewish importer, his mother a Scott-Irish housewife, and he had

one older sister. His parents were divorced in September 1947 before

Rye and Nine Stories. These books show the dilemma of people trying

the cliff"" much less save others (""Salinger"" CA 336). Mark Twain''s

extravagant, but Salinger used many other aspects to convey his point.

incidents of adulterated emotion can be seen in many of Salinger''s

vernacular dialect and idiomatic phrases previously unused in

(""Samuel Langhorne Clemens"" 2). The setting of this novel is on the

and petty heroism. The symbols of innocence are the raft and the river.

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