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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-28 03:52:51.
(Language: English)
 
Ok, so here we have the controversial "N" word book. For those living the controversy I say "read it". (It's much more easier and entertaining to read than "Origin of the Species".). I'm a Finn, and I consider Huck to be one. He possesses all the characters of a Finn. He is a nature boy. He is rebellious to authority, yet obedient to it. He is loyal. And his father was a drunk lumberjack. This schizophrenic disposition leads him to a situation which, to me, absolves him totally from using the "N" word. Having considered turning his "N" in, he chooses the alternative. He'd rather go to eternal flames of hell than to turn his "N" in to the authorities. And, as for the Finns, there's this deep-rooted feeling of guilt and, subsequently, a very observant note of it: "So we poked along back home, and I wasn't feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame, somehow - though I hadn't done nothing. But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would poison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer he says the same." By the way, whereas Huck is a Finn, Tom Sawyer, he is a Swede.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-09 08:47:01.
(Language: English)
I found the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to be a surprisingly enjoyable read. Although the old Southern language is occasionally difficult to understand, I got used to it after a while and it did not distract from the plot of the book. I think many of the themes were easy to relate to, such as the ideas of independance and standing up for what you believe in. At some point in their life, every person has to break free from whatever is holding them back, has to go their own way. Also, Huckleberry Finn is considered to be disobedient and unruly, but everything he does that is against the rules is done with purpose - he is, in reality, a rebel with a cause. I found the character of Huck Finn likeable and admirable, and the book eventful and, at times when it was slightly more slow moving, pleasantly descriptive and a nice change of pace. I would rate this book 9 out of 10 - NINA BOZIC
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Iwan posted a review at 2010-06-15 01:45:53.
(Language: German)
Huckleberry Finn war für mich, als wäre ich mit dem kleinen auf eine Reise gegangen. Entlang des Missisipi-Rivers kann man das plätschern des wassers und das rauschen der Bäume regelrecht aus dem Buch hören. Ein faszinierendes Buch für alt und jung, das eine wunderbare freundschaft zwischen dem weißen Außenseiter und einem schwarzen Sklaven zur Zeit des Rassismus veranschaulicht. Mark Twain ist sicherlich einer der besten, wenn es darum geht, den amerikanischen Traum auf dem Blatt Papier zum Leben zu erwecken.
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Edoardo posted a review at 2010-02-23 06:33:39.
(Language: English)
I missed most of the classic children's books as a child, so I'm fillin them in as an adult. And you know what? They're wasted on children. This is as good a piece of writing as you'll find anywhere and for any age group. If you want a comparison, think of Kipling's 'Kim'. Both involve long picaresque voyages through exotic lands (India and the states along the Mississippi), with their intrepid young heroes toting an accompanying adult of variable usefulness. Both Twain and Kipling are masters of dialogue, with unequalled ears for accents. A joy to read.
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Sarah posted a review at 2010-02-21 07:58:35.
(Language: English)
Although often assigned to middle school children, this book requires a certain level of maturity to appreciate it fully; I was assigned this book in my freshman year, but I know I would get MUCH more from it if I read it again now. At surface level, Twain's novel is engaging. One can't help but laugh and revel vicariously in the adventures that Huck and Jim get into. Jim's dialect can be confusing and annoying at first, but you will get used to it and it's not that difficult to figure out what he is saying. On a deeper level, this novel explores a more serious theme: the conflict between individual freedom and the corrupting influence of society. Huck resists being "civilized" by the Widow Jenkins, and readers cheer him on in this regard. He is resisting what many of us would like to resist---the boundaries set by society. To be "civilized" means to lose one's self in some way; it means to relinquish childhood. This book has always reminded me of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye because of its completely honest first-person narrator and the theme of individual vs. society. So, if you like Salinger's novel, you'll probably enjoy this one.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-15 07:01:02.
(Language: English)
How can you not enjoy Twain at his best. Forget about the time it was written, and remember what he is saying about human relations--the true friendship that springs up between Huck and Jim, how Huck sees Jim as an equal in a society when African Americans were viewed as second-class citizens (This is 1876 after all.)And then there is the irrepressible and irresponsible Tom Sawyer who comes onto the seen livening things up, and yet never taking the spotlight away from Huck and Jim.By the end of the story, as Huck is brought into civilization, you know that he'll never stay there because you know he'll always be that 12 year old looking for pirates, gold and adventure just down the old Mississippi River.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-19 03:59:15.
(Language: English)
The first time I read this book two years ago, I was put off by some of the dialogue because it wasn't easy to understand, and I stopped after the first 100 pages. I got bored one day and picked up the book again and started reading from the beginning. When I got to the middle, I was hooked and wanted to know what was going to happen next. The story of this 19th century road/boat trip along the Mississippi river by Huck Finn and Jim was entertaining, especially in the middle chapters. The storytelling reminded me of Don Quixote, and the voice of the narrator reminded me of To Kill a Mockingbird. I lost my book before reading the last 30 pages, so I had to finish reading the novel at Barnes and Noble.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-01 11:38:14.
(Language: English)
i could write a thesis on this book!(well, in fact i did--almost, just 15 pages--for my senior seminar project) but, i'm trying to be "bite-size" here, so let me just say this is one of the best books ever written(even hemingway said there has been nothing as great since). when people say huck is a racist book(because it uses n****r over 200 times, and for other similar reasons), it just shows they cannot read critically...it is jim's character who is most moral, not the pious preachers and society folk, and this evolves huck to the point of "going to hell for jim." if only we all could have that inner learning and turn our backs on society's "lessons"...
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-20 01:48:48.
(Language: English)
I read this after the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was disappointed. Sawyer is definitely a children's book, while this examines much more adult themes, and not in an entertaining children's style. The theme - as I remember from when I was 12 - is that people can get along regardless of race. (Or is that family is whomever you make a part of your family?) The high jinks throughout the story built up Huck's and Jim's time together, and the building of "family". Despite their age difference they wind up having a very close and respectful relationship. This contrasts with the start of the book where Huck's "real" family - his father - is uncaringly using Huck, while "the widder" is concernedly overly protective. Both parent figures result in dysfunctional situations.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-15 07:38:21.
(Language: English)
I loved this book. I read it once in High School because they made me, but it was definitely one of my favorite things to have been forced to read. This year, I read it again with my daughter who is in 7th grade. This book is fun to read and downright funny in places. My daughter didn't understand the dialect, until we read it aloud together. It was a great opportunity to discuss what was happening at that time in the South, and the history of our country. The best part of the story is Huck's inner conflict over Jim, and his ultimate decision to rescue him. Mark Twain does a wonderful job taking a serious story and twisting it with humor. I also love the contrast between Huck and Tom, one of them practical and to the point, and the other one full of romantic ideas. The language used by Huck and Jim show who they are more vividly than just plain English ever could have. While it can be difficult to understand at times, if you read it out loud, its much easier to "hear" and understand it.
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Marcel posted a review at 2009-04-04 06:10:58.
(Language: English)
I don't think this is a case of imagination versus reporting . . . nor of the basic lack of observation skills of the average person who lives in a place. I'm talking about what a novelist gains by actually spending time in a place he or she's going to be writing about for a year or longer. Can anyone actually argue that Mark Twain's youthful memory of Hannibal, Missouri, and of the pre-Civil War Mississippi River life wasn't central to the power and beauty of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN? Can we imagine William Faulkner writing about small town life in Albania or India or anywhere other than his Mississippi and the South and creating the same universal power in his fiction (through the specifics of regional character, dialectic, and geography?) Could Tolstoy have written equally as well about adultery in 19th Century Texas? It isn't journalism, nor even just "local color," when gifted novelists choose to fill their tales with the carefully observed details of a time and place they know well. This is, I think, one reason why science fiction and fantasy often fail as serious fiction; the writer is so busy creating place -- which often still feels like cardboard scenery -- that he or she has little energy left to deal with such trifles as style, character, theme, dialogue, and quality of story. I would suggest that it doesn't matter how many awards you win as a teacher or how well you act "on stage" -- if you're doing all the work in the classroom, or even more than any given student in your class, you're failing as a teacher. All the teachers before you have failed as teachers. Blase kids bore the shit out of me. Putting up with that attitude from children, at whatever grade level, is professional malfeasance. Your students need to be educated to be LEARNERS before you offer them something as sacred as HUCKLEBERRY FINN to experience. The story became more complicated as Twain ran into his own money problems. He'd promised Grant a fortune for the memoirs -- enough to provide for his family for the rest of their lives -- and as Twain himself flirted with bankruptcy, it says something about the author's honesty that he never once considered reneging on his handshake promise. To offset his publishing financial woes and to help fund the Grant memoirs, Twain went back to work on a novel that he'd set aside years earlier because of its narrative and moral complexity -- a tale of Ulysses S. Grant-style honesty and morality even within poverty and deep opposition to slavery -- a difficult book called THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Twain's courage in supporting and editing Grant in the midst of the writer's own struggles influenced Grant at the end of his life; Grant's incredible courage and honesty in the face of death influenced not only Twain but the direction of HUCKLEBERRY FINN itself. I agree that Gully Foyle is one of the great characters from that relative desert of characterization that is science fiction. But -- to my fellow SF readers here -- what other SF characters are truly memorable? (And I'm talking about memorable on the level of, say, Huckleberry Finn.) I think that the partial list of "great characters in more recent fiction" is a good one. The idea that Huck Finn comes across as a great character only because he's old and "iconic" is beyond silly. It's a serious Kwatz! stick statement and worthy of many lumps. Even when Huckleberry Finn was brand new to readers, the force of his human and lasting literary personality came across loud and clear. One will notice though in the stellar list of characters from Rabbit Angstrom through Yossarian, that we tend to move quickly back outside of SF and fantasy. These genres produce some fun characters, but almost none, I fear, that can walk off the page in the way a Huck or Rabbit or Yossarian can and did and will. Libraries and reading library books are not a "form of stealing." Mark Twain may have celebrated when HUCKLEBERRY FINN was banned in libraries in several states -- more copies sold! -- but no author I know of thinks that libraries equal stealing. Also, writing longhand, as someone pointed out, is a tried and true technology for writers for the past couple of millennia. It's led to almost every absolutely agreed upon literary masterpiece in existence. (Although Mark Twain wrote most of HUCKLEBERRY FINN on that newfangled typewriter.) But the story is not apocryphal that when Mark Twain heard that HUCKLEBERRY FINN had been banned from libraries in two states, he staged a major celebration. The general rule is that for every library book stocked, count on six hardcovers not selling. (Please understand that this comes from a long-term supporter of public libraries.) A more serious critique of my beloved genre is the simple question -- What seriously memorable characters come to mind? (Not just interesting or zany fictional constructs, but three-dimensional portraits of a human being that have the more-real-than-real depth of, say, a Huckleberry Finn or David Copperfield or Holden Caulfield or Humbert Humbert.) A "leisurely read" is not the same as bad writing. Indeed, we tend to read lousy books because we can devour them quickly, without worrying about savoring taste or thinking about what we've just swallowed. Bad books are the opposite of leisurely -- they're fast and nutrition-free gruel that can be swallowed in one gulp. It's the well-written novel that demands leisure -- and care -- in its reading. Reading, say, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN both requires and provides leisure, but it doesn't require we accept inept writing as a standard.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-14 09:46:08.
(Language: English)
A much loved and much reviled American classic. It should be in the library of anyone who considers themselves educated. As controversial and appealing now, as it was when Twain wrote it, Huckleberry Finn has a remarkably simple premise. It is the story of the adventures of a young mischeivious boy. Originally intended simply as a sequel to Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the book became an outlet for all of Twain's musings on society, everything from education to slavery. Huck's disgust of books and school is normal for a boy, but is also meant to satirize the educational system, and the society as a whole, with it's emphasis on strict conformity. Huck's befriendment of Jim the runaway slave, echoes Twain's own transformation from the son of a slaveholder, to a radical aboltionist. The whole story is told through the innocent, and yet searingly honest eyes, of a typical American boy, which makes the satire all the more biting. Huck acts as an observer who is outside of society, who finds that in the end he cannot live in this society and "lights out for the territories" to begin his life anew. A jolly good book, that nevertheless should not be read lightly.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-19 03:35:00.
(Language: English)
Huckleberry Finn is truly a classic, and an indispensable part of the American literary canon. I put off reading the book for many years because I had - a many of you may have - an inaccurate preconception of the book: i.e., "I don't like that kind of country humor", or "I don't like those old-fashioned novel", or "I just don't like that kind of book." If you yourself have this kind of feeling about the book - let me assure you, friends, you should READ THIS BOOK. It is much, much more than that. It is a rich, stunningly accurate portrayal of the pre-Civil War South. It is also an enduring portrait of childhood. It is, quite simply, a masterpiece. Huck Finn is a character that, no matter who we are or how far removed from him we are, we can all relate to. It is also, in its use of particular American dialect, a very influential book. A quote you often see is the one Ernest Hemingway himself made about this book being the very archetype of the American novel. And it is true. Tom Sawyer was the first step, but this book is the culmination - it is the masterpiece. It is here that American literature found its voice, and stepped out from under the shadow of its neglected step-child relationship with English literature. It has a voice distinctly its own - distinctly American, and couldn't have come from anywhere else - and its immense influence on subsequent American lit is enormous, and cannot be overestimated. It is an absolutely archetypal novel. Also, its heroic portrayal of slavery was a very immediate thing as well. Its influence on such writers as Alice Walker and John Steinbeck - as well as, in some form, literally all great literature to come out America since - is profound. For this reason, and for its sheer adventure and narrative drive, it is an essential read for simply everybody.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-14 08:44:38.
(Language: English)
Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people." Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-15 11:01:29.
(Language: English)
actually writing a review of this kind o' books is a way to destroy the brilliance mark twain has kept between the cover, for his readers.the background of the story is same as the adventures of tom sawyer. ,tis a story of a boy who ran away from his home and went through various types of experience.the book is good enough to make you feel like you are out there beside finn.though it demands its readers to have a basic knowledge of the post industrial revolution society of europe i think people who doesnt even have that much knowledge should now really concentrate on their history classes.
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Lori posted a review at 2009-02-13 11:29:28.
(Language: English)
Keeping in mind the political, social and economic climate of the United States when this book was written as well as the personal life of Mark Twain, this book is far more than the simple story of a 19th century boy floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave and two scoundrels pretending to be royalty. I think is a lot more about human nature in general. The river alone is a huge symbol about the precariousness of life. Having grown up around that river it is one the is HUGE and looks smooth at times but is NOT, just like life. We get swept away by currents and can sometimes navigate and sometimes not and people maybe as real as they seem and maybe the illusion is all that really matters anyhow because some people just don't want to know what is real. This is why this book just won't go away and this is why the adventure of Huckleberry Finn is really the adventure of all of us.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-08 08:35:27.
(Language: English)
A pretty faithful (& thus, controversial) evocation of life in mid-America during the mid 19th century. I have read it many times from childhood to now & always find that Twain transports me back to the day. There are some very difficult passages about the lilfe of African-Americans at the time & the language, while faithful to the times, is often insulting to African-Americans. Of course, as a historical reflection, it must continue to be read as written, but I can see why many are angered by the racial slurs. This book played an odd role in my personal life. I was raised in Paducah, Kentucky, right at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. Just off the Port of Paducah, there lies a small island. When I was a child, my father regularly told me this was the actual island where Huck and the slave, Jim, hid out when Jim ran away from his owners ("You see that island out there? That's where Huck and Jim hid."). I recall, vividly, the day in my senior year in high school when my good friend, Bruce, kindly but firmly, showed me on a map just why that could not possibly be true. While I must admit I was miffed at my father for several years about this -- you cannot imagine how many people I proudly informed over the years that this was THE island -- I have since come to see the comedy in it, and it has become one of our family's inside jokes. Recently, my wife and I were in Seattle. I pointed her to an island sitting out in Peuget Sound and said, "You see that island out there ..."
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-06-09 09:28:28.
(Language: English)
I thoroughly enjoyed the classic novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Although the language used in the book makes it difficult to fully understand at times, the story within is one full of adventure and excitement. The societal views during this time period reflects through the events that occur during this novel. Slavery was accepted and expected during the time the novel was written so Twain who lived in an envrionment where slavery was common, most likely shared some of his own views and societal views and conveyed threm through the voices of the characters. I found it very engaging to see the true views of slavery during this time portrayed by Twain, rather than a modern day author, attempting to convey what they think people felt about slavery even though they did not live through this time. That, along with my admiration for Huck Finn's desire to rebel against common belief and act according to his own morals, and the great adventures, contribute to me giving it a 9.5/10.
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A Reader posted a review at 2012-01-29 12:31:07.
(Language: English)
Did you know there's four different southern dialects in this book, one of which is completely extinct? It never ceases to amaze me how quickly our brains pick up the dialect and suddenly we discover we're talking like an African American slave from 150 years ago in our minds.....*perfectly*. Through the eyes of an adventurous little boy, this is the most honest snap-shot you're ever going to find, into late 19th century life in the Southern States. We've all seen the movies, we've all heard the tales, but none of them do the book justice. You have to read it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-11-19 03:58:27.
(Language: English)
Fantastisk bok som jeg skrev en god anmeldelse av. Den ble borte i den teknologiske sullamitten, og WeRead (Books iRead) fungerer med andre ord ikke like tilfredsstillende som Movies-applikasjonen. Nå blir dette andreutkastet av anmeldelsen mer en Hunter-homage, men kort og greit kan jeg si at jeg i en alder av 32 først har lest Tom Sawyer. Den litterære kanon har dessverre ikke vært høyt prioritert, og jeg har latt andre kunstformer få bedre tak i skrotten i løpet av åra - men det er bedre seint enn aldri, og jeg hadde nok minst like mye glede av denne boka nå som hvis jeg ble påtvingt den på ungdomsskolen. Da kan jeg mimre tilbake på egne skøyerstreker, mens jeg følger den utspekulerte lille Thomas gjennom sin og kameratenes eventyr og andre sprell! Applaus
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-01-09 09:56:26.
(Language: English)
This book was difficult to read because it is written in 4 different dialects from the time period. It taxed my brain in that regard. I read a review of it by Ernest Hemingway that said Twain should have stopped with Jim getting captured and Huck shoving off West, and I can't help but agree. The chapters following his capture are pretty much torture. An interesting window onto the world at that time. Another piece of trivia I found on it is that in the '90s, it was the 5th most contested book in school libraries due to the ubiquitous use of the word "nigger".
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-22 07:29:30.
(Language: English)
I first read this in 7th grade. I remember walking to the cafeteria with my face in the book because it was just too good to put down. I've since reread it a couple of times - twice for college classes alone. It's still a great book with full, three-dimensional characters. Even as Twain wrote this book, he wrote in the intro that this was what life was like when he was a boy some 40 years before. This isn't Shakespeare in that it is not a timeless tale that can be retold in many ways, but rather a story of specific people in a specific time period. Those stories are wonderful to hold on to because they capture bits and pieces of our history.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-15 07:16:26.
(Language: English)
I finally got around to reading this so that when the Veggietales take-off comes out I will know how the real story goes. The N word does get distracting, but it also helps make the point of how prevalent that mindset was. There were flashes of brilliance-- poignant or funny or both-- but the escape at the end was just long and baffling. I guess the payoff that Jim was free the whole time they were taking ridiculous pains over the elaborate rescue was worth it, but how it dragged, and I just wanted to finish the book.Now I want to see the musical Big River, which I suspect will be much more fun to watch than the book was to read. It suffered from Moby Dick disease, where the detail to paint the scene was too tedious to really ignite the imagination. For me, at least.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-05 10:36:37.
(Language: English)
When I first made Huck's acquaintance at age 10, I fell in love with him both because he gave me such a fascinating view of 19th -century life and because he seemed as confused by adult antics and the requirements of polite society as I was myself. I hadn't a clue about social satire or Mr. Twain's reputation; I just knew I loved Huck. After many years and many rereadings, I still love those things about Huck; I've just come to value his abilities as a teacher as well. He taught me to look not only at the stated goal of an action (or policy, or social rule) but also to scrutinize its actual results -- and then look again. He taught me that societies do change, but not always in the ways that they think they have, or for the reasons they think they have. He taught me that human character hasn't changed noticeably in the last 150 years, and suspect that it won't change much in the next 150 years, either. He taught me that life is hard but pretty good if you have the right attitude. He taught me that scoundrels are everywhere, and that sometimes they're even pretty good folks if you don't expect too much. He taught: which is pretty amazing for a boy that never had much use for school.
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Olivia posted a review at 2009-11-10 10:55:51.
(Language: English)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a boy who fakes his own death to escape from his drunken father and meets up with his neighbour’s runaway slave. They travel together heading for Cairo so that Jim can be free. Along the way they get mixed up in a family feud that results in the death of both families, a scam with two frauds pretending to be the King of France and a noble Duke and eventually Huckleberry has to enlist the help of his friend Tom Sawyer and his family to help Jim escape when he is captured. This book had a very unusual storyline. The whole story had many parts to it and they moved on quickly. For example, when Huckleberry Finn met somebody, they wouldn’t stay in the rest of the book. Only three characters stayed in the book till the end. The storyline was quite interesting because you wanted to find out what happened to Huckleberry Finn after each little adventure. Some parts were slightly boring when nothing was happening and it made these parts uninteresting. The ending of the story was a happy one and it fitted well with the rest of the plot. There was a lot of themes in this book, including racism during the slave trading and the treatment of the children. The characters in the book were also good. Huckleberry Finn was an interesting character because he changed his mind about things quite often and because he is still a child, he thinks differently to the usual characters in a book of this period. Jim was another good character. He was a character that the author made you sympathise with and want him to escape from captivity. He is a victim of one of the main themes of racism in the book and he was a very likeable character. The only other character that was in both the beginning and the end of the book was Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn’s friend. He was a very strange character and very childish. When attempting to rescue Jim, he made everything difficult so that it would be just like the stories of prisoners escaping and he didn’t seem to understand the difference between what he should tell someone and what he shouldn’t. This made his character quite annoying and tedious. The language in this book was very confusing at times. The author wrote the book as a child so spellings were often wrong and it created misunderstandings. Also, when the author wrote as one of the black slaves he used a dialect that was extremely difficult to interpret. This was very tedious and annoying because I had to re-read many sentences over again to grasp the pronunciation. I think this book is a classic because it provides a huge amount of information about what life was like in that period of time. It describes peoples attitudes towards racism, treatment of children, criminals and the everyday way of life that is very different from today. Not only does it give us an idea of what it was like to live in the 1800’s but it also shows us how people spoke to one another. It shows the dialects of many different people and how they treat each other.
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