ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the American literature dealt with the challenges of the period including the First World War and the stock market crash. It examines key writer of the time Mark Twain, providing a rich and varied literature that reflects these turbulent years. The Huck Finn arrives at the toughest spot, the closest place, in all his adventures on the Mississippi river, while Mark Twain uses the scene to bring his novel to its moral crisis. It reports and recreates the movement of Huck's consciousness as he thinks his way through the consequences of the new situation that the King's characteristic duplicity has produced. The society that Twain depicts in Huckleberry Finn is thus a society characterized by linguistic corruption. This is why it is so vulnerable to any form of linguistic 'sleight-of-hand'. The realism of Huck's speech, acquires a powerful moral authority; the naturalness of the vernacular is the only remaining source of honesty, integrity, truth.
