First off, it is a great story and its being told in the vernacular is probably fairly significant for American literature (but I really don't know for a fact). Apparently, he really did try to nail it in a way no one had before but like I said, I don't actually know. The one issue with the story ...
In coincidental honor of Banned Book Week! Huck Finn is miles weightier than Tom Sawyer, and it's almost the Great American Novel it's called. Tom Sawyer was all fun and games - Don Quixote, as he points out himself, "all adventures and more adventures." Huck Finn's a different person; he's conce...
I should probably read this book again, now that I'm older and "wiser" and because the last time I read it I was in 8th grade. I remember being so disappointed by this book, because I LOVE Huck Finn in "Tom Sawyer" which I've read multiple times. I don't remember specific criticisms as it was over 1...
I should probably read this book again, now that I'm older and "wiser" and because the last time I read it I was in 8th grade. I remember being so disappointed by this book, because I LOVE Huck Finn in "Tom Sawyer" which I've read multiple times. I don't remember specific criticisms as it was over 1...
Well, this was required reading....I didn't like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I didn't enjoy the writing at all. But I will point out the talent Mark Twain showed us as he wrote the same way the characters spoke. Sorry, I can't think of the word I want at the moment. I found the characters le...
I sincerely hope that someday our race obsessed society will have progressed enough that readers can enjoy this excellent novel without having to either defend or condemn the author's use of one particular word.
I picked up this book because there has been so much in the press recently about removing Huckleberry Finn from many high school reading lists. No better press for a book than banning it! The story is a classic with a fun plot and two wonderful characters, Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave. It is s...
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