Unintentional Inspiration

When it comes down to deciding how much words and speech matter you have to rely on the situation. In A Scholar Finds Huck Finn's Voice in Twain's Writing About a Black Youth, the author narrates how Twain could have met a boy that inspired him to write Huckleberry Finn: “in an almost forgotten article in The New York Times in 1874 as "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across"” (Anthony DePalma). Although this boy might have given him part of the idea I find it unlikely that this encounter is the reason he wrote the book. The situation might have had its part and Twain, who already had a vague idea, concluded that he should write the novel. This leads me to the conclusion that all artists are inevitably inspired by their surroundings and the mood in which they are in transforms an idea into a work of art.