The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
How does Twain use sentence structure in the following passage to emphasize the point of view AND characterization of Huck Finn?
“Everybody was willing. So Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on, and read
it. It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done
anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family
must do it, and he mustn’t eat and he mustn’t sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in
their breasts, which was the sign of the band. And nobody that didn’t belong to the band could
use that mark, and if he did he must be sued; and if he done it again he must be killed. And if
anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his
carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and his name blotted off the list with blood
and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.” (8)