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Die Figur des Huckleberry Finn basiert auf der realen Person des Thomas’ „Tom“ Blankenship (* 1839 in Hannibal, Missouri), der gemeinsam mit dem vier Jahre älteren Samuel Langhorne Clemens (alias Mark Twain) in Hannibal aufwuchs. Beide Familien wohnten in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft.
6. Okt. 2022 · Birthplace: MO. Death: 1899 (59-60) USA. Immediate Family: Son of Woodson Blankenship; Mahala Blankenship and MAHALA ONSTOTT. Brother of Benson 'Ben' Blankenship; Martha J Clark, Twin; Nancy Jane Patton; Elizabeth "Becky" Blankenship; Mary ANN Blankenship and 3 others.
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The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Wood-son Blankenship, who lived in a "ramshackle" house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.
Twain based Huck on a childhood friend, Tom Blankenship, “a model for rebelliousness in the face of all authority” (Fears 9). Paine says of Tom, “[He] was the son of an indigent family, exactly as pictured in [ Huck Finn ]: a ruin of rags, a river rat—kind of heart and possessing the priceless boon of absolute freedom.
21. Okt. 2020 · Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Thomas Blankenship born abt. 1831 Missouri, United States including ancestors + 2 photos + Y-chromosome DNA + more in the free family tree community.
29. Apr. 2021 · Twain once said that Huck is based on Tom Blankenship, a childhood friend whose father, Woodson Blankenship, was a poor drunkard and the likely model for Pap Finn.