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Summary: An exciting/boring book all wrapped into one!, a must read.!
Review: This book takes a good veiw of racism in the south in the 1800's. It uses a great deal of satire and humor to move the reader along. It is a great stroy of friendship between two unlikly people. The book if filled with adventure, suspense, humor, sadness and more. I would recomend this book to people who enjoy a good classic. One thinks that Mark Twain saw himself in Tom Sawyer, but in his dreams, longed to be Huck Finn.
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Summary: great re-read
Review: I have probably read this book 10 times, but this time was different. i'm older and can easier appreciate the social commentary twain made than i could when i was a child.This book is a classic, and if you haven't read it, you should.
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Summary: Huck Finn was an exciting book and it caught my attention
Review: The Adventures of Hucklebury Finn, written by Mark Twain, was an excellent book. The manner in which the novel was written caught my attention just from the start. Twain combined his distinctive dry humor with some of his exaggerations creating the Mark Twain style. The Adventures of Huck Finn was a sequal of The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Upon reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer I decided to read The Adventures of Huck Finn. The novel starts off telling us about the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In conclusion Tom and Huck find a treasure so Huck is put a home living with Widow Douglas. Here Huck is'nt so happy. She is trying to teach him all of the proper ways. Soon after his drunken father finds out he has a treasure and beats him almost to death so Huck will give it to him. Huck runs away to an island where he meets a runaway slave, Jim. He and Jim become friends and decide to run away to the free states up north. They find a raft so they can travel by river. Hoping not to be seen, Huck and Jim travel by night. A little while later they encounter a ferryboat which recognizes that they are runaways. After selling Jim to be a slave again, Tom and Huck decide they must free him. In the conclusion of the book, Jim is freed because his prevoius owner had freed him just before she died. The Adventures of Huck Finn was an excellent novel. This work along with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer forever placed Mark Twain amongst the ranks of the greatest writers on earth let alone the United States. The Adventures of Huck Finn, often mistaken as a children's book, has since its creation instigated widespread timult. It and Tom Sawyer were banned in various places around the world for their "questionable" racist content. Nontheless, these novels made powerful statements about the anti-bellum South, in a manner that only Mark Twain could convey.
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Summary: It amazes me people are offended by this book.
Review: The is a classic American novel. For those people that condemn it for using the 'N' word or racist story lines, guess what? Thats the way the country/world was in the 1800's. The subject shouldn't be a tabboo. Get a life.
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Summary: A breath taking adventure.
Review: This book provides history of the true American life during this time, it provides the knowledge of the dialects, and also the struggles of the world. I think that this book can be used as a tool in any class be it math, English, or history.
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Summary: I think it is an very adventureous book I read.
Review: I think it is almost the same as Tom Sawyer. I like this book ( Huckleberry Finn ) better than Tom Sawyer. I love to read adventurous books by Mark Twain and other authors. Also I love to read mystery stories. Also most mystery stories I read is by Caroyln Keene. I think the most best things about books is the summary and the title and the setting. For example: He ran in a dark, creepy, scarely, huge mansion. Even though I don't read that much books, I still thinks that Mark Twain books are very exciting and adventureous. The only thing I really wants to say is that Mark Twain books are just unbelievable. Like: Tom Saywer, Huckleberry Finn, and etc... Also Mark Twain's books are very long.
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Summary: Great Novel!
Review: I started to read it just for fun, and now, I can put it down!
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Summary: Great Literary Work
Review: This book is one of the best written in it's time. Some people might consider it a racist book, but the book clearly stated the way society was back then--just a reflection of the old life. This story about a young white boy and a slave on the run, shows that anything is possible. This is definately a book that you should read.
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Summary: The Criticism of Civilization
Review: A young innocent boy who feels the whole world is against him. Huckleberry Finn feels he is trapped and cornered. His actions are constrained and his freedom is limited. This is what civilization has done to Huck. The only place where he can find sanctuary is the river. For Huck and Jim, the river becomes a place where the only bliss in civilization exists. Everywhere else, civilization is just a force trying to mold them into shapes that they do not want to be. What is civilization? Is it like the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons who would do anything to kill each other or is it like Miss Watson or the Phelpses who buy and sell slaves as if they were chattel? None of the characters have totally civilized characteristics. It appears as though no one wants to be civilized. Even the proper Miss Watson cannot live without her dear slaves. Whether she is good to them or not is not an issue. The fact that she does not look at them as her equal takes points off her character. How can a society consider itself civilized if they deny the humanity of large numbers of people in it? The satirical novel ridicules civilization. Mark Twain tries to look for civilization everywhere but in vain, he finds it where it is least expected. He finds civilization away from the towns and away from the busy people's lives. Civilization lies in the almost isolated surroundings of the river. There is great contrast in the river and the shore. The hands of 'civilization' drive people onto the river. People want to believe that civilization exists on the shore. But the hopeless attempts to reach civilization on the shore show that the river is a better place that is more humanized. It is only in the parts where Jim is treated as a human being where the positive aspects of civilization are shown. Civilization is not when Huckleberry Finn has to wear his nice new clothes or when he has to come for supper when a bell is rung. As Huck says in the last line of the book - "Aunt Sally she's going to adopt and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before" ( Twain 369) Huck doesn't feel he is 'sivilized' when he follows all the proper and decent manners of Aunt Sally. Only when he helps Jim escape from his dreaded fate does he feel humane and good about himself. Instances like when he does the 'right thing' by not giving up Jim, give Huck a more civilized character than anyone else in the book. There is irony in the fact that the person who cares the least about being civilized may in fact be having one of the most civilized emotions of all the characters. He is more civilized and mature than his elders precisely because he looks at the world from a different angle. He rejects the notions on what is necessary and real and goes by feelings other than what the supposedly civilized world follows. His non-conformist nature makes him bold and civilized. "..and so when I couldn't stand it any longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags, and my sugar hogshead again, and was free and satisfied" ( Twain 49) Everyone lives in their own unrealistic realm. Jim wants to be a free man, the Duke and the King believe they can get away with anything, Miss Watson and Widow Douglas think everything can be made perfect and Tom lives in a world of adventure and excitement. No one lives in the real world. If they would just look around they would realize that it is not civilization they are living in. They have created imaginary worlds. Nature and the river is needed to snap them out of their beliefs and bring them to the real world where civilization exists. Even Jim started to accept the fact that it was a next to impossible mission to make himself and his family free. The rich families of the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons are in a feud. Huck Finn and Mark Twain see no sense in the killings between the families. Even for the time the book was written, when civilization was not as advanced as it is today, the feud was looked upon with amazement as to how people could kill senselessly. Both families indulge in uncivilized acts. It is certainly not expected for two families of such elite standing to follow barbarous doings. The King and the Duke hope to get away with their hoodwinking play. They believe that people would fall for it precisely because they haven't yet reached that advanced stage of social development called civilization. Both of them think themselves to be more civilized than any of the people on shore. But the reader knows just how civilized the Duke and the King are. They are nothing but mere scoundrels. And if they are more civilized than the people on shore, then those people do have a long way to go before they reach civilization. Although the people eventually see through their sneaky act, Mark Twain still does not think the people to be worthy enough to have reached the level of civilization that he pictures. The examples of uncivilized people in the book show how society thinks themselves to be civilized. This gives them a feeling of having an edge over those who are not civilized. It is this very feeling that also makes them uncivilized. This is how Mark Twain has viewed people in the book. This is his criticism of civilization. Out of a handful there lie very few that can be called civilized in the world.
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Summary: Pretty Nice
Review: I love Mark Twain! I am currently learning English in China. It is really hard for me to learn it here because there is not an evironment. But I tried to read some books in English and it did affect me a lot! From all the books I like Mr Mark Twain's best. Because his stories are mainly all about the childlife and I am also a kid, in fact. I am 14 years old. This helped me to know what American Children thought and lear my vocabularies. I know I wasn't able to win the contest because my English is poor, but I do think Mark Twain's books are nice. I have learned lots of words from it. I have also learned some in Chinese in our Chinese Text Book. One is called " Electing the State Minister", this passage is really nice and it not only is humor but also let us know what the U.S. Society used to be. In fact, I think he is the greatest author in the States. The book "Huck Finn" however, is a continue of the book "Tom Sawyer Adventure", and it shows us what happens next and also tell us what Huck had experienced. It tell me what the 19th Century boys in America thought and helped me to understand that I should not study all the time, as the Chinese students are hard at studying and I will find time to relax. And this did help my study! May I ever thanked him for giving us such good books. May I ever remeber him for helping me to know many things.
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