His work may have enshrined America but at the same time he was always fiercely attacking the hypocrisy and cruelty of the country. And his "racist" books emphasize above everything the value of human freedom and dignity, regardless of race. .
Mark Twain uses similes and metaphors to create a vivid picture in the reader's mind. By using similes and metaphors, he enhances the characters, the settings, and the objects he is describing so that the reader can have a clear understanding. Not only does this writing technique successfully create images that the reader can easily relate to, but also it actively interests and entertains at the same time. His best friend of forty years William D. Howells, has this to say about Twain's writing. "So far as I know, Mr. Clemens is the first writer to use in extended writing the fashion we all use in thinking, and to set down the thing that comes into his mind without fear or favor of the thing that went before or the thing that may be about to follow" (Howells 186).
Many people have read or heard of the stories that Mark Twain wrote because they are very popular and represent the American lifestyle of his period. He wrote many different types of stories. We find romance in "Roughing It" (1872), and boyish idealism in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876). There is a story of sixteenth-century England in "The Prince and the Pauper" (1882), and a river-boat story in "Life on the Mississippi" (1884). Many people know about Huck and Jim, and their life on their raft in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). The story of Camelot is told in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889). Nevertheless, Twain is remembered most for the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn adventure stories that many people first read as children.
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is a novel about a young boy's coming age in the Mississippi of the mid-1800's.