Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford Mark Twain)

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Summary: Huck Finn the perfect dremer
Review: Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in 1884 . The hero is Huck ,an orphan addopted by the Widdow Douglas.Huck is kiddnapped and imprisoned by his father ., but he manages to run away . On Jackson`s Island he meets Jim , a runaway slave . Together they start a magic expedition on the river Mississippi . Together they experience a lot of happenings , all leading to a stronger friendship between Huck and Jim .Huck learns from Jim the dignity of a real man . Their adventure comes to an end , when Jim is captured . Huck ,toghether with Tom Sawyer , helps Jim to escape . In the end , when " all ends well " and when Tom`s aunt Sally decides to adopt Huck he refuses and prefers to heads westward to avoid being " sivilized" .

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Summary: The Classic American Journey
Review: Deservingly, this book is Mark Twain's claim to High School English class fame. Simply put, it has everything that makes up a great novel while remaining simple enough, and enjoyable enough for anyone to read. This is one of those books that everyone must read atleast once, and probably many times over the course of their lives. Therefore, if you have not read this book, do so as soon as you get a chance. If you have read this book, you understand what I am saying already, and you might want to buy it for your kids, or your bookshelf anyways.

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Summary: A heartwarming headache.
Review: I REALLY wanted to give this book 5 stars. I mean it, I REALLY did.

Unfortunately, last year, when I had to read this for school, I found it a very well written headache.

It is not the story that is at fault. Quite the contrary, the story itself is wonderful, and points out and pokes fun at the rough points of the society of the time. This is very common in Twain's work.

However, what ruined it for me was the dialog. Living in the south for 6 years now, I had a leg up on what the characters were trying to say, but Twain so layers the book with local color dialog that it is literally painful to read at times. If you like dialog in your stories, this is one definite must-read; however, if you do not like decyphering southern dialect, leave this one on the shelf. If you have to read it for a class, don't feel too bad, the plot is engaging enough to where you can enjoy the book. Just don't read to much at a time. I believe everyone knows the basic story. Huck Finn gets tired of his life and his abusive father, so he runs away from home, sailing down the mighty Mississippi on a raft with an escaped named Jim. This is the sotry of their escapades down the river. At some points you slap your head, at some points you grab it in pain, and in some points you just can't stop reading. A fairly good book for the way it was written. Literature buffs have to read it, though.

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Summary: Mark Twain this is not
Review: It's hard to imagine how anyone could read Mark Twains hillarious satire and social commentary, and so completely miss the point. Kerry Shale will have you absolutely spleeping through passages that would have you in a belly laugh if you were reading it yourself. And his interpretation of Mark Twain's characters is only adds to the boredom. Just because they talk in local dialect, and have predjudices and superstitions, does not mean that they are all ignorant buffoons. Mark Twain is hillarious and some narrators will have you peeing in your pants listening to his books. Pass this one by.

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Summary: BOYZ WILL BE BOYZ
Review: I READ THIS BOOK IN MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL WITH MY LANGUAGE ARTS CLASS. AT FIRST TO BE HONEST I THOUGHT IT WAS BORING BUT THEN I REALLY GOT INTO IT. I GOT TO KNOW THE CHARACTERS AND I ENJOYED READING IT AND TAKING TESTS AND QUIZZES OVER EACH CHAPTER. MY FAVORITE TWO CHARACTERS WERE TOM AND HUCK.....I FEEL CONNECTED TO THIS BOOK LIKE I WAS THE MAIN CHARACTER OR SOMETHING. THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK! THANX!

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Summary: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Review: "Huckleberry Finn" is a wonderful classic, written by Mark Twain. There are many things about this book that will make it stand out in your head more than any other book. This is a very adventurous book that will keep you reading. This book will amaze you in many ways. This book is wonderful, but hard to read. If you like books with easy words that you can read quickly, then I do not recommend this for you. This book is hard to read because of their southern dialect and bad grammar. This book is very hard to read. If you can get used to thye language, then you will do fine with this book. It is a very adventurous book. There is always something crazy going on, which makes it a lot more exiting and fun to read. Not only is the whole theme and plot and characters wonderful, but there is also a great authors style. Mark Twain did an excellent job of first of all capturing the setting of a hundred years ago in the South, by making sure you got the feel and image in your mind of where this takes place. He also writes from Huckleberry Finns prospective, and does a wonderful job on trying to really become that character, and you can tell in the things he writes. Mark Twain is an awesome writer and makes it half the reason it is so good. If you enjoy books with much adventure then read "Huckleberry Finn". Mark Twain is a wonderful writer which makes the book much more worth reading. Mark Twain's classic "Huckleberry Finn" is defenintly a recommended book.

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Summary: The American "Heart of Darkness"
Review: True, this novel is over the heads of many high school English students. This is the "darkest" American novel I know of, which is probably one of the reasons that induced Hemingway to say that American literature begins and ends here. Like Conrad's Marlowe, Huck is journeying "upriver" into a region of the human psyche best left unobserved by any but the most stalwart of heart. His eyes are opened on the voyage. His ultimate character is shaped by what he experiences. His is a passage from naivete to wide-opened observer.What begins as an idyllic raft trip turns more and more turbulent the closer to Illinois he gets. What begins as a Tom Sawyer lark becomes more and more Faulknerian. Yes,it is a voyage from inexperience to experience. Yes, it is a quest story. Yes, it is a novel about man's inhumanity to man, etc. etc. But there is so much more at work here..Twain shared much in common with Swift. We are looking primarily at the underbelly of humanity here, not its bright spots. The ending, as pointed out by numerous critics,is problematical. Exactly what is Huck's position vis-a-vis Jim? Has all that has occured previously been given up in the moment he is counseled by Tom? Is Huck so ready to overthrow his hard-fought allegiance in order to conform to society's dictums? Twain offers no clear resolution, but this should not keep this novel from being taught in high school or college classrooms, when students are given the liberty to consrtuct their own conclusions.Personally, I believe what Twain is telling us is that we can never exhibit our true natures in society without risking being stoned to death. Conventional pressures have not really changed that much from Twain's day to the present. Just by espousing my support for this novel I am opening myself up to criticism aimed my way from the righteously correct. American society hasn't changed all that much. Religious piety and indignation has been supplanted by political correctness. Harriet Beacher Stowe, bless her, is alive and well. There are people out there convinced that Uncle Tom's Cabin is a more significant work than Huck Finn. What would Vonnegut say here?

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Summary: An Unvarnished Look at the Human Soul
Review: For such a simple story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn often proves to be elusive for its readers. Here are some guideposts to look out for:

This story is told by Huck, and is not in the classic shape of a novel. Rather it is a precursor to Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past, where other great writers attempted to capture the essence of our internal dialogue.

Huck is also hiding a lot from himself. You as the reader can quickly see through him, though. He is trying to put a brave and positive face on a very dangerous situation. We all do that.

Huck also has to face himself before the book ends. What really is important? We can all spout a lot of moral talk, but what we do is critical.

If we lived in Huck's times, we would also see that there was an emormous moral dilemma. The rules of humanity were often not applied to black people. You could choose to go along and feel like a hypocrite (if you thought about what you were doing), or you could do the right thing. Sensitive people of that day often found it hard to do the right thing. If your neighbors were open-minded and you lived in the North, you might do one thing. If your neighbors were slaveholderes and lived in the South, you might do another.

Also, think about the trip down the river as an analogy for going through life. How will it turn out if you just let your direction go with the current?

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Summary: THE Great American Novel
Review: This is the granddaddy of American literature. Mark Twain is an American icon. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn slyly purports to be a boys book about freedom on the river. It pretends to have no moral or motive at all. This is not so. Mark Twain, in spite his opening rebuke against anyone finding a meaning in the book, is seeking to make a statement. This is a polemic against the evils of slavery. I often felt that Huck Finn parallels Twains own youth. Huck grows to see Jim as a man and a friend. Twain came from a family which owned slaves but he himself came to be vehemently opposed to slavery. Huck Finn comes from a background where slavery is perfectly acceptable. The grand climax is when Huck decides he will go to Hell rather than let his friend be sold back into slavery. He continues to help Jim. This is an amazing tale although the ending is a bit anticlimactic. One is happy that Jim is free however. He emerges as the one true man and gentleman in the whole novel. This is one of the great underlying ironies of the novel. It is often overlooked due to the politically incorrect racial slurs. The slave is the man with the greatest dignity and integrity. It is unfortunate that this point is missed. Mark Twain wrote a masterpiece. The current controversy will eventually fade but The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will endure as one of the great works of American and World literature.

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Summary: This book is a message...
Review: It really upsets me to see some of the reviews about this wonderfull story.Some people say that the reason why they don't like the story is because they didn't understand it. But they probably didn't even try. Willing is all it takes to understand and fall in love with this incredible message of love and friendship that Twain shares with us through an orphan boy, to whom freedom is much more important than being rich and well educated. I feel the same way too, and if you do you really should read the book, and if you already have, recommened this book to your friends.