“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. » - Albert Einstein. Mark Twain was an American author who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, considered and labeled "the great American novel." Twain has also been called "the father of American literature" by William Faulkner. As a little boy, he moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he spent most of his life and where he experienced the setting of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Throughout an author's life, the experiences they go through and the beliefs they may develop, more often than not, will affect their works and be present in significant ways. Authors who were able to put their experiences and beliefs into words have given the literary world many masterpieces, and it is essential to put a little, or even a lot, of the author into the work itself . Twain lived in many places, had many experiences in racially and controversial times, lived a life of proliferated job types, and lived in a way where he developed many beliefs and morals. By piecing together his entire life, Twain was able to successfully contribute all aspects of his life to the creation of many American novels, but most significantly The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Grant) Mark Twain always brought many aspects of his life into his work, but this is even more prominent in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His childhood was mainly spent in Missouri where he moved at the age of 3. His stay in Missouri gave him the foundation necessary to write “the great American novel”, while even in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain writes: ““Most of the adventures recorded in this book actually happened; one or two were experiments of my own, the rest of these boys were schoolboys... middle of paper... Byterian boys when the weather was doubtful when the weather was nice we strayed a little from the herd. Especially when he was young, he questioned whether his religion was actually true, whether any of it was believable, and questioned the church repeatedly throughout Huckleberry Finn, Huck had always had difficulty knowing right from wrong, and just the. global concept of sin. He was an individual thinker from an early age, he said: "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost all cases obtained second-hand and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined sin. questions involved, but I picked them up second hand from other non-reviewers, whose opinions on them weren't worth a penny. Which explains his belief that some people blindly follow the words and prescriptions of authority figures...