Underneath that sound lives the sound of Huck’s indomitable spirit, the boy within the boy whose core nature has not been destroyed or even damaged. Huck’s voice is the straightforward, honest sound of self-condemnation, and of acceptance of the morality that surrounds him. He does not speak out against his exile, but his actions make us reject it, and reject the values of those who have cast him out. By accepting the town’s assessment of him, a judgment that comes from the town’s self-righteousness and hypocrisy, Huck demonstrates how completely he has been psychologically damaged. Imagine the novel if the town says Huck is bad, and Huck says Huck is bad, and Huck is, in fact, bad. Twain speaks to us through Huck about things Huck himself can only dimly perceive. By making Huck a self-described ne’er-do-well and miscreant, and by demonstrating through Huck’s behavior that the boy is actually the opposite of these things, is in fact, quite possibly the best person in the world of the novel, Twain satirizes a corrupt society and condemns the “peculiar institution” of slavery. And this is the key to Twain’s magical use of voice. Huck’s town considers him a bad boy, and Huck does not dispute this. In Huck’s private thoughts to Twain’s readers, Huck is most shocking when he satirizes religion and other pieties of his time. And Huck is not just a boy, he is an outcast whose father is a drunkard and a petty criminal, an abuser of Huck and others. Huck Finn’s voice is strongly regional, and possibly to our modern tastes, a little too heavily phonetically spelled, but Mark Twain’s authenticity in the creation of a Missouri boy of the mid-nineteenth century is not in question. Even the strictest of Presbyterian deacons, once he has recovered from Holden’s casual takings of Christ’s name in vain, pulls the boy into a protective hug. It’s a hard-hearted reader who doesn’t immediately take the young Holden to her bosom. Holden’s voice, radical, even shocking, for the time of its publication, is elaborately casual, mildly obscene (with lots of “for Christ’s sakes”), and it’s the trying-too-hard voice of the adolescent who tells us everything is fine but communicates by other means that just about everything is wrong. In the opening pages of Catcher, Holden Caulfield speaks to us from a hospital bed It’s not long before we infer that this hospital is not for the body but for the mind. You can select at random any pages from these two stories, read them aloud, and get instant recognition from most readers.
The two American novels that I considered the most voicey are Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye. In my teaching, I have used the term, “voicey,” to describe novels, usually but not always first person narratives, that exhibit extremes of dialect. Voice is the sound of a human being speaking, and it’s a performance that can include, I believe, the sound of a character’s thoughts. This added him to the ranks of soca veterans Super Blue and Machel Montano who were the only other persons in the competition's history to achieve this feat.My subject here is voice, which is distinct, I believe from style. In 2017 & 2018, he did just that with his songs “Far from Finished” and “Year for Love”. Voice however didn't stop there as his goal was to win the competition three times in a row. The song oozed good vibes and a positive and grateful mindset with its lyrics "From you wake up this morning, you're a winner!" At the age of 24 with his song "Cheers to Life”, he became the youngest person in the country's history to win the crown.
In 2016, he entered Trinidad's International Soca Monarch Competition for the first time and won. Shortly after achieving this accolade, it was his turn to compete. His first ever co-written song won the groovy soca segment of the international soca competition. Voice doing a preview for the Synergy Soca Star competitionīefore he took the stage to win the country's International Soca Monarch competition, he began writing for other well known soca artists. From there, he participated in a few other competitions including the country’s Jr Soca Monarch and the island’s Soca Synergy competition winning some and placing in others. From the age of 16, he decided to compete in his secondary school’s Soca monarch competition and won. Upon discovering he could actually sing, his music teacher encouraged him to do something with it. In an interview with OMGtt, he shared that he took music for his regional exams, but switched his instrument from pan to voice for his final exam. Born and raised in San Juan, Trinidad, ‘Voice’ is a talented singer and song-writer who actually started in the music arena by playing pan in high school.
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