I See in A Minute There Warn’t Much Chance for Anybody Being Alive in Her (pg.91)

“She was very deep, and I see in a minute there warn’t much chance for anybody being alive in her"

The Walter Scott that was a steam boat named after a famous writer in the romanticism period. Scott engendered people’s minds with these fantasies of chivalry and honor, through books like Ivanhoe. As Huck sees The Walter Scott sinking in the river, Twain is satirizes the romanticism period by showing its death. Twain, unlike Scott, is more of a realistic writer and more against fantasy. The idea of the dramatic fantasies drown along with the boat. When Huck says, “There warn’t much chance for anybody being alive in her,” Twain is saying that when people get on teh Walter Scott, or ideas of fantasy, they end up dead or lost. This can be portrayed in the Civil War as well, but it can be related more closly with modern society. In television shows of saviors or superheros, the youth find it interesting that the good side will always win and that the hero is one person everyone looks up to. This gets implanted into the minds of the youth and creates a sense in that they can do anything and that they could become that superhero they watch on T.V. It sways them away from reality, which is what Twain is trying to point out. In the picture you can see a kid dressing up as a famous superhero, Superman.