Hemingway claims in Green Hills of Africa that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." If this basic idea is applied to his own work, elements of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn appear in some of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories and his novel The Old Man and the Sea. All major characters and several minor characters in these works share the quality of natural innocence, composed of their primitivism, sensibility, and active morality. Hemingway's Nick, Santiago, and Manolin, and Twain's Huck Finn and Jim reflect their authors' similar backgrounds and experiences and themselves come from similar environments. These environments are directly related to their continued possession and expression of their natural innocence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500586 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Hall, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1956- |
| Contributors | Kobler, J. F. (Jasper Fred), 1928-, Tanner, James T. F., Kesterson, David B., 1938- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 146 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Hall, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1956-, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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