How does language contribute to the total effect of Huckleberry Finn?

“Come on back to the raft, Huck, honey” is, without doub, one of the most famous, most subtle, and, yet, most-overlooked lines of speech, of novel-summary dictum, from the entirety of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” America‘s—and, significantly, American Literature‘s—coming of age Magnus Opus that not only explains why Huck doesn’t—why he cannot—mature during the course of the novel; it, simply, reflects the prevailing storytelling zeitgeist of not only author Twain; but, moreover, of then-prevailing American letters. Summarily, Jim’s otherwise seemingly-kindly words of warning-concern to Huck on the river, as they make their comic-rustic way into and out of one picaresque situation after another, concretely evince, thematically-so, the lark-like core essence of Huck, the great nove, even Twain, himself, and, perhaps even foremost, the age: In 1884, the country was, like Huck (and, even, Tom Sawyer, himself, Huck‘s true closet character-magnitude understudy), just a kid. And, maybe, just maybe, that’s Twain‘s hyper-poignant point, all along, namely, the advent, the fact, of Huck‘s; and Twain’s, and America‘s, and, foremos, our Letters‘s nascent state: earnes, entertaining, engagin, yet, like Huck and Jim, at that momen, on the migh Mississipp, in the nove, in tim, not, yet, quit, arrive.pointed,

Mark Twain was a master of writing in dialect. His masterful Huckleberry Finn is narrated by the uneducated, thirteen-year-old Huck, who tells the story the way an uneducated thirteen-year-old boy would: colloquially and subjectively. From the very first sentence, the reader is made aware of Huck's very specific voice:

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

The use of grammatically incorrect double negatives and slang words like "ain't" exemplify Twain's use of language throughout the novel. Part of the effect of this is to put the reader inside of Huck's head; by doing this, readers become attuned to Huck's thoughts and the way in which he thinks. Thus, the language use creates a thorough portrait of who Huck is. Another effect of Twain making Huck the narrator is the creation of dramatic irony. Because of Huck's youth and ignorance, he frequently says things or describes things in ways that the (presumably older and wiser) reader knows to be false, which can lead to either humor or tension depending on the scene.