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Read the excerpt from chapter 5 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which Huck describes his father. He was most fifty, and he looked it. His hair was long and tangled and greasy, and hung down, and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines. It was all black, no gray; so was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl—a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white. As for his clothes—just rags, that was all. He had one ankle resting on t'other knee; the boot on that foot was busted, and two of his toes stuck through, and he worked them now and then. His hat was laying on the floor—an old black slouch with the top caved in, like a lid. Which best describes the effect of the narration?

1.It gives the reader an objective view of Huck’s father.2.It foreshadows Huck’s argument with his father.3.It helps the reader see Huck’s father through Huck’s eyes.4.It distances the reader from Huck and his father.


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The correct answer is:

A. It gives the reader an objective view of Huck’s father.

This best describes the effect of the narration.


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Number 3, since this is from the point of view of Huck, this is how Huck sees his father, Huck doesn't have the best outlook when it comes to his father's situation and it shows in his description of him. Words like "sickly" and "tangled" and "greasy" which all have a negitive connotation.
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