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Summary: Huck Finn Review
Review: Looking for a good book to read? Well, just pick this one up, because The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a great book. This is a very interesting piece of literature and is not like anything else I have ever read. Listen and you'll see why. This book is written in first person, and the story is told from the view of Huck Finn, a twelve or thirteen year old child of St. Petersburg, Missouri. The English used by Mr. Twain does not seem very good. He meant to write in this way, though, to give it a little more southern flavor and sound like a young teenager. The language itself makes the story interesting, and somewhat of a challenge to try and figure out what the characters are saying. Some words used, even in the first couple of pages, are "whippowill", "didn'", "gwyne", and "sumf'n". As you can see, Twain is very good at speaking in old American and southern talk. Another aspect of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the satire Twain uses. This helps us learn about the people of the time, as well as add to the entertainment value of the book by showing things that we find ignorant, which can be funny. Twain also uses satire to show weaknesses in society and look to make a point. Twain criticizes how gullible people are, how you can't trust everyone, and how some things that could be easily done are overdone. The gullibility of people keeps coming up in the book. First, they don't see the capability of everyone, especially the young. This can be seen on page 33 where Huck portrays himself as dead after using an ax and a pig to put the cabin in ruins with blood and his hair. Another instance is in Chapter 21. Huck dresses up as a girl and goes into a cabin to get some things for Jim and him. He calls himself "Sarah Williams", and even when he slips and calls himself "Mary", the lady still has no clue. Finally, she figures it out, but it takes her a while. A third and the most noticeable instance of how people are gullible is on page 132. The duke and the king, two people that come along with Huck and Jim, hold a play of Shakespeare. "To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin, That makes calamity of so long life...." The audience was wowed by these words, and have no idea that they aren't really reading Shakespeare except a little here and there. This also shows that you can't trust everyone you come in contact with. The last aspect that makes this story interesting is all the motifs in it. A motif is an idea, phrase, object, or element that keeps appearing in a story. In Huck Finn, the motifs are money, superstition, trust, and freedom. Money keeps occurring in the story. There is a reward for Jim and Pap, Huck's dad, Huck and Tom Sawyer find $6,000, he goes and sees a couple of wealthy families, and the foursome, with the duke and the king, try to raise money. Superstition happens with Jim. Huck goes to Jim to hear about his dad, Huck and Tom play superstitious tricks on Jim, and there are a number of other occurrences. Huck wants to have freedom from everyone and the town and Jim wants to be free from slavery. Trust, as I already mentioned, is a big motif. Characters find that they can't trust each other. These motifs are interesting because we all want money and want to see how people earn it, superstition is interesting to see if it is right, and we would like to know what kind of people we can trust. Also, the motifs keep us interested in the story by seeing if we can understand what they are talking about and by them giving clues to help us read the book, while at the same time keeping it challenging. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a good, well thought out, and plot-filled book. It is as good as anything I've ever read and you will have fun reading it. If you don't read anything else, read this because it is worth it.
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Summary: The mediocre adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Review: This is another deemed classic book that should've never made it as far as it is today. The basic scheme of the book is Huck runs away with a slave and they pretty much do nothing exciting the entire book with a dumb ending. It reminds me of most classics. I don't see why the book is called racist (it was written long before the Civil Rights movement), but I do see why many people think this book sucks.
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Summary: love it!!!!!
Review: I enjoyed the book, it was a really good book.I love adventures and this book was truly something to sit and read, if you like suspense and drama. It was about a boy who is looking for freedom and has a companion with him. Looking wherever he could travel without being caught. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for adventure and for those who have a very good imagination.
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Summary: Great American Classic
Review: This is one of the most enjoyable books I've read for years. It is packed to the gills with fast-paced action whilst still being informative and historically interesting.To judge this book as being "racist" for using the word nigger is ridiculous - that is the word people used.
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Summary: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Review: THE ADVENTURE'S OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, by Mark Twain is an exciting classic about a boy and his strange ambition for never-ending adventure. His only companion, a run-away slave named Jim has been his partner in "crime" as they both run away from society. This novel took place in the crucial times of the late 18 century where slavery was an unjust method of deception. Jim's struggle for freedom and Huck's struggle for adventure take both of them through non-stop ventures.
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Summary: huckleberry finn review from 18 year old eyes
Review: A very exciting edge of your seat novel filled with adventures that really touch home. imangine being a run-away slave trying to get to freedom and your only companion is a white boy that could turn you in at any time. you are sold for $40 to live in a small prison shack until you are claimed. try being a small white boy is who hidding a slave and knowing all the time that at any minute you could be hung for keeping your secrets. these are just some of the amazing adventures you will find in this book!
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Summary: Huck Finn as a litmus test?
Review: The negative reviews below provide a good argument that Huck Finn (and perhaps all Twain) should be removed from the High Schools of America and taught at the College level. Most sixteen-year-olds don't care what happened last week...to them, the nineteenth century never happened. I only hope their reviews didn't earn them school credit as "book reports". Good luck kids...hey, isn't "Friends" on?
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Summary: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Review: dventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain 352 Pages This book was very well-writen. It is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn (Huck for short), who runs away with his slave named Jim, who doesn't speak English very well. They run into a lot of trouble along the way which makes the book very exciting and suspenseful. Like one time they run into a bunch of pirates. That part kept me turning the pages. I think that the setting makes the story more exciting and it is an important part of the story. The setting is a very long time ago, when slaves were still legal. At times the book can be confusing, but it is worth it, because Mark Twain is a great author.
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Summary: A book not meant for everyone, but everyone should READ it.
Review: When I first read this book, I was so taken with it, that I read from chapter 18 through the end of the book in one night. I was up until 3:30 in the morning, reading ahead of my 11th grade assignment, and loving every minute along the way. later in college, when I studied the book more, closer, and with a more educated eye (whatever that means) my love for the book increased. Now, as a teacher myself, I look forward to having my students read this book and discussing it in class. But now as for the title of my review: I can't help feeling bad for people who think that this is not a good novel because "we don't talk like that anymore." Are we to abandon books that are no longer contemporary to ourselves? I also take issue with people who claim that this book is a racist tirade based upon the use of the word "nigger," or because the escape route Jim took was down the Mississippi instead of up river. While currently offensive, Mark Twain used the term as a literary fact that most, if not all young boys of the south spoke in such a manner. Once more, Jim explained why he was going South before he headed north. the simple fact is that if you are going to criticize a book, then you should read it. mark Twain said as much in his essay, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses." From reading a number of the reviews of this book, I have come to the opinion that while many read the book, more than a few are refusing to give Twain credit for subtext and the use of allegory. One reviewer down the line says that the book is racist because Twain makes a young boy to be twice as smart as Jim. Upon closer reading, Twain is showing what Huck feels to be true. Huck only thinks that he is smarter. The reader should pick up on the fact that Twain writes Jim as an intuitive father figure for Huck, one who teaches a true morality as opposed to the morality of the South. Simply put, you get what you put in to the reading of this book. If you think is is going to be a boring read because you "have to" read it for a summer reading list or school assignment, then that's what it will be. If you think it will be a difficult read because you don't want to try and read in dialects other than your own, it will be a hard read. If you are looking to justify the book as racist because of a single word that presentism doesn't excuse, then have at it. This book can be all of those things. However, this book also has the potential to enlighten the reader, give something wonderful to the reader, and teach about the human condition.
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Summary: I'm no Easy Huck
Review: 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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