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Final Draft - Mark Twains Invents Modern Literature Earnest Hemmingway once said. "All American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain call Huckleberry Finn". Hemingway recognized the stylistics devices used in Huckleberry Finn were prevalent in his own and other modern American authors work. Twain adds a tone in modern literature by introducing the following devices controversial themes, the unreliable narrator and vernacular. Twain took things that he saw which were happening around him …

…the many ways that Twain used the uneducated southern vernacular in his novel. Twain created modern literature by using these techniques and constructing an atmosphere which draws the reader to read on. The devices which he invented: the controversial themes, unreliable narrator, and the dialect were an entertaining way to describe the southern atmosphere. Earnest Hemingway was right about how all modern literature came from Mark Twain ideas used in writing his novel "Huckleberry Finn"