Rhetorical Analysis Huckleberry Finn

Chapter 6 - Men (and Women) Made out of Words
In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, the main character Huck reflects Coleridge's theory of the “willing suspension of disbelief.” Foster mentions this idea in this chapter, which act as briefly disconnecting any thoughts aside and puts on imaginations into play of the reader: “trick the mind that...allow imaginative works (81).” This allows the “social contract” comes up with “we agree to accept....events we know not to exist in the real world…” (82). From agreeing with the author’s imagination, readers are also agreeing to follow the writer’s style such as Hemingway's iceberg theory. Although Twain creates a nonfictional setting, he invite readers to use their imagination to …show more content…
It is common for writers to have smooth transitions from one chapter to another. Angelou, however, specifically create chapters with her important events to accommodate her life. Angelou reenact her main events as chapters; however, she emphasize the last ideas at the end of chapters such as “He watched every move she made, and when she left the room, his eyes didn’t want to let her go” (27). Each chapter has its own plot which then solidify into one complete masterpiece. Foster endorses Angelou’s style with “A chapter...make sense for its particular novel, follows no rules but its own. At the end of each chapter, Angelou’s briefness allow her work to not be overly detailed, which avoid Foster’s tip of “loss of focus” (43) and the “wholeness” as well. This allow the reader to not be easily distracted in Maya’s rebellion, authority figures and growing up. Angelou embed strong ideas at the end of each chapters to create adrenaline rush of readers’ interest for the next page. According to Foster, the use of chapters in Angelou’s autobiography, allow readers to renourish themselves which “teach us how to read the novel” …show more content…
Homer constructs the protagonist, Odysseus as a Greek hero and as a warrior. The use of manipulation is a universal theme that can be found as Odysseus’s central weapon when confronting his obstacles. In How to Read Novels Like a Professor, Foster states that “you’ll have to stick to just one place (109).” Although Homer has a universal theme, the epic poem does not follow Foster’s statement of “You can’t write about everywhere for everyone, only about one person or one place” (111). As readers get further into the epic poem, Odysseus is on a quest back from Troy where he has been stuck at sea for many years. Odysseus, however, uses human psychoanalysis to get out of trouble from characters Odysseus meets along the way. At the start of the plot, Odysseus and his men are trap in a cave where the Cyclops eats a few of Odysseus’ men. In order for Odysseus to escape, he tricks the Cyclops into drinking wine in order for him to sleep: “Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men (9.314).” Homer specifically expresses Homer’s ability when they passed the Sirens. Most importantly, Foster’s Law of Universal Specificity is not always implied to all stories, but understanding that universal themes do apply to most of the stories read in everyday

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