Theme: importance of humor in children’s literature the ministry of higher and secondary specialized

1.2 Humor is importance in children’s literature

FIVE REASONS CHILDREN SHOULD READ HUMOUR

Humour engages young people particularly reluctant readers as they are naturally playful and generally laugh far more than adults do.
Humorous literature harnesses the exuberance and wonder of youth with words and ideas.
Young people interact with their peers and foster friendships through humorous literature as they enjoy sharing the laughs with their peers.
Humorous books reflect reality, which, in reality, is a mixture of sad and funny, joy and pain, highs and lows.
Far from being an ‘easy option’, humorous literature encourages critical reading as young people learn to read between the lines and develop an awareness of subtly and sarcasm, right and wrong.

Chapter II. The major writers of 19 century

After the American Revolution, and increasingly after the War of 1812, American writers were exhorted to produce a literature that was truly native. As if in response, four authors of very respectable stature appeared. William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe initiated a great half century of literary development.

Bryant, a New Englander by birth, attracted attention in his 23rd year when the first version of his poem “Thanatopsis” (1817) appeared. This, as well as some later poems, was written under the influence of English 18th-century poets. Still later, however, under the influence of Wordsworth and other Romantics, he wrote nature lyrics that vividly represented the New England scene. Turning to journalism, he had a long career as a fighting liberal editor of The Evening Post. He himself was overshadowed, in renown at least, by a native-born New Yorker, Washington Irving.

2.1 The main characters “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

The book starts out with Huck telling the reader that this is a sequel to Tom Sawyer. After his dad deserted him, Huck lives with some lady named Widow Douglas. He describes the widow’s sister and his two friends, Tom Sawyer and Slave Jim. Then huck’s dad comes back and takes Huck. After a while, Huck’s dad starts beating Huck, so Huck runs away. He fools everyone into thinking he has been killed. He goes to some island where slave Jim to where Jim had also escaped.

Huck and Jim get a raft and sail down the Mississippi River. Then their raft gets hit by a boat and breaks. While Jim fixes it, Huck hangs out with some family. Then the raft is repaired and they sail on. They are joined by two crooks who tell Huck they are French royalty. Huck doesn’t believe them, but plays along. Then the two guys, King and the Duke, go from town to town and swindle people out of cash. Huck doesn’t like traveling with two con men, so he thinks up a plan to sail away and have the two guys arrested. The plan doesn’t work. Then the two jerks run out of cash so they sell Slave Jim to a farmer.
The farmer that buys Jim is Tom Sawyer’s uncle. Then Huck and Tom meet up. They decide to set Jim free. They devise a plan but the plan does not work and on top of that, Tom gets shot in the leg. Then they all find out that Jim has actually been a free black man all along. So everyone goes home. Huck decides that he is going to go live in the Indian territory.
2.2 The description of heroes in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the United States for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood"better source needed It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism and freedom.
Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. The book was widely criticized upon release because of its extensive use of coarse language and racial epithet. Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived use of racial stereotypes and its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger".

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