Huck-Finn

Mark Twain does an excelent job of giving the setting character and the feeling of it actually being alive. He does this in many ways like when he said "We went winding out amoungst the trees, and sometimes the vines hung so thick we had to back away and go some otherway. Well, on every old broken-down tree you could see rabits and snakes and such things" (49). This shows that the setting has character to it because of the fact that Twain went into such detail that you get a vivid image in your head that you can imagine what the wilderness is like and how it behaves to people. Another section where he shows that the setting has characterism is when Twain stated "i had worn the ground a good deal crawing out of the hole and dragging out so many things. So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside by scattering dust on the place, which covered up the smoothness and the sawdust. Then i fixed the piece of log back into its place and put two rocks under it and one against it to hold it there" (33). This shows the characterisation of the setting by giving the objects in it the sensation of being part of a living organism that can be effected and changed and be made to fool a person when it would normaly not do that.