How do the remaining chapters of Huck Finn (after chapter 16) illustrate this pattern of contradiction and how was it ultimitely resolved?First, i...

Twain put the book away after Chapter 15. He had just written a scene in which a white character, Huck, and just apologized to a Black character. Huck has just commented, " It took me 15 minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger;but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward. That apology was something revolutionary in American literature at the time. He leaves the book for two years and when he picks it up again, it is a much darker book. In the next section, Huck and Jim are separated and Huck goes to lives with the Grangerfords. This is episode has a very sad ending with the death of Buck which causes Huck to lose much of his innocence. The episode is also a dark commentary on the civil war and the young men who died needlessly as a result of the battle between the north and south. As far as the ideal of nature is concerned, Twain continues to

romanticize it. The river, especially, continues as a place of both peace and contentment for Jim and Huck. So, ironically, even though Twain considered himself a realist, his book does contain some Romantic elements.However, that should not really be a problem because many authors cannot be pigeon-holed into one literary school or another.