The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

To be completely honest about my opinion on Mark Twain's book, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, " I would have to say it is not my favorite book. The biggest confusion for me was the way they spoke back in the late 1800's. I wasn't very fond of the book when they used words like "nuffin", "dey", and other words like "git". I understand that the author, Mark Twain wrote like this to illustrate how they spoke during that time period. I found it difficult and more time consuming to read. At times when reading I really thought I was going to have to fail this assignment and quit honors. Until there would be a twist in the book, for example how Huck and Jim split up on the raft, and then unexpectedly they reunited. Things like this would keep me somewhat entertained and compelled me to finish reading.

One thing I did like was the characters. I liked how Mark Twain made each of the characters so different and unique. Huckleberry Finn was more of an ornery, thoughtful side to him but at the same time he is also very laid back and witty. Huck's best friend is Tom Sawyer. He is everything that Huck is not. Tom is more daring and dominating. He is a daydreamer that takes charge and creates these mastermine plans that usually do not work out. Some of his plans include making a gang of robbers with Huck and a couple of other young boys. Other characters include Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. They are two wealthy sisters who adopt Huck from his drunken father, Pap. The sisters try to transform Huck into a more "sivilized" person. He was not fond of this, especially of their religious views. Hucks father, Pap, is basically a drunken old man who beats his son. Pap is ashamed of Huck when he finds out that he can read. This shows how different the thinking was during that time period as compared to now. Another main person in the book was Jim, Widow Douglas's slave. He and Huck become runaways together and form a friendship. They first run away to Jackson's island, where they camp out and learn about each other. Huck begins to see Jim as a slave with "white on the inside" when Jim talks about how much he misses his family and when Jim protects Huck. Two immoralistic scheme artists join Jim and Huck on their adventures. They are the dauphin and the Duke. They claim to be French royals but they don't even know how to speak French. In the beginning, Huck completely believes the fakers but eventually figures out that they are just liar and thieves.

It seems like the most important topic in the book was prejudice against African Americans. In this book almost everyone treated blacks like they were subservient animals, kind of like we treat our dogs today. Out pets do not get to make decisions about where they sleep, eat or live; neither did the slaves. For example, when Sally and Huck were speaking about the explosion on a steamboat, both said it was really lucky that no person had been killed - when actually a slave had died. In the beginning, Huckleberry viewed African Americans as property but the longer he was around Jim, it made him realize that blacks weren't property - that they had emotions and fears just like whites. Huck was even willing to risk going to hell to free Jim. He seemed to be the only person in the book to have this epiphany - even the "good people" like Miss Watson and Widow Douglas didn't see anything wrong with they way they viewed the slaves. It was not my favorite style of writing but I enjoyed the characters and learning about that time period.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

I havent read very far into the book Huckleberry Finn yet; but so far it has been fairly interesting.Im not very sure how to use this blogging thing but if I am doing it wrong, someone please correct me haha. When I figure out how to do this better I will write more but for now Im going to stop there untill I clear things up.