25: Narrator and Point of View

   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is told from the first person point of view from Huck himself. This omits a main character from the novel because the text is not about Huck often, even though his name is in the title. He is always talking about other characters and simply his interactions with them. The chapters focus on other major characters, from Pap, to Jim, to the Grangerfords. A main character cannot be identified because each part of the story has a different one, but it is not ever Huck.

    Huck is a youthful narrator, and his personality and some views make that obvious. This influences how readers will interpret the novel because his views may not be fully developed. As a child, he does not know very much about a lot of aspects of life, such as morals and ways the world works. This means that readers can rely on what Huck is narrating, because it is his story. However, the narration of serious topics coming from a child is what produces a lot of the satire in this book, so they need to realize some things may not be accurate interpretations coming from Huck's perspective.