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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
1876-83 (composed); 1884 (UK); 1885 (US) · American English (with dialect)
American picaresque novel · Nineteenth-century American realism

Twain's 1884 American picaresque on the Mississippi — slavery, friendship, moral conscience

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Attribute Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The flowing time of the river journey.

Space

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Mississippi River and its banks.

Matter

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The raft, the river, the embodied Huck and Jim.

Observer

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck the vernacular first-person narrator.

Energy

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Energies of escape and friendship.

Information

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The vernacular voice carrying moral discovery.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain's Huckleberry Finn: foundational for the American novel; Hemingway's "all modern American literature comes from" it.