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Literary Realism in Huckleberry Finn

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Literary realism to me is just how it sounds, a type of writing that came about during the time period 1865-1910. During this time literary writers felt there was a need to write about life as it really was, with real characters during that time period, doing real jobs, and dealing with the normal everyday scenarios. It seems to be as though literary realism took place in rejection towards the romanticism time period of 1830-1865. As years passed, the immigrant population and work places grew. As this happened, changes in industries became very life changing, machines were invented, and factories grew. The city became the center of attractions. More people were provided with the same job opportunities as the people who were of higher class. Romanticism was based on fictional topics; it was time to write about things that were going to attract readers, that’s why the realism literary time period took over. People were interested in the detailed pieces about the true nature of reality.    Realist novelists carried on with many of the core novel traditions, like plot structure. Most of the time novelists follow an arc of events that lead to the climax and then conclusion; it was a type of symmetry. As realist novelist began writing they began to realize that real life events didn't always follow that structure. Most of their writings were written about an event that wasn't really affected by extraneous circumstances. Realism literary required a different type of narrative style. Instead of having someone calmly describing the person or events, readers aimed for unreliable narrators, reason being it would accurately simulate the reader to think about and have their own beliefs towards the nature of reality, and events that are taking place in each writing they are reading. Realism focused purely on true reality, character came before plot at times, social class was an important role, and most of the novels were based on middle cla

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