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Summary: Worthwhile Read
Review: The significance of this book in American Literature, which I feel was overstated by Hemingway, nonetheless commands recognition. This book broke out of the literary mold of its day and forever changed the face of the American Novel--and short story and literature at large, for that matter. Furthermore, this book is a good read, though perhaps a few points shy of being brilliant.
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Summary: excellent
Review: this is an excellent and well written story. there are some truly memorable lines in this film as Huck and Tom take their adventures down the Mississippi. A wonderful read for kids of all ages, including 50 year olds.
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Summary: A Review On Huck
Review: "Come here, Huck," Aunt Polly called from the front porch where she was washing the clothes, " Don't you dare talk to that nigger again, you hear me, Huck, never!"
"Alright, I am coming I was just making a bargain," Huck yelled back as he slipped the money in his pocket.
My essay is on the book Huckleberry Finn. I read this book and loved it. I think this book shows a friendship between a black slave and a white boy during a time when that was considered an unusual thing.
This book takes place during a time when blacks were not treated equal. Blacks were thought of as property not as humans. An example of this takes place in the down town slave market.
" Cheap niggers, get your cheap niggers," a slave driver called out from on top of the stage. Families are being separated and children are crying while they are standing in shackles and cuffs. This is hatred.
In this book, there is a lot of action. Every time you turn the page somebody is getting into trouble. It even goes as far as to put on a play to rip people off.
" Come see the Play of Nonsense, the best in the world," the duke yelled to the listeners. The duke and so called king are going to put on a play. Their idea is to rip people off and run with their money. It is a smart idea but later on they pay for it. The next night the play starts. Hundreds of people walk in and hand their money to the duke. Right when the play starts, the duke comes out and announces that there have been some misunderstandings and rushes off with
the money he collected from the audience. This book's plot is awesome.
In this story the main characters are laid back and have a great sense of humor. An example this happens when Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, are rafting down the huge river. Jim is in great danger, but they always have time to play tricks on other people.
Also, there is a lot of dirty tricks and cheating. All four characters have a good sense of humor and a mind that is made to get into trouble. An example of this takes place when Huck fakes his own death and fools everybody while he lives on a raft for two years. He left his Aunt Polly behind to mourn about him and fooled everybody else. For a while he stayed on a little island but then decided to raft down a river. He made his own camps and caught his own food. All this to him was a fun vacation. He loved it!
In conclusion, this book is awesome! My four beliefs are: there is a hatred toward blacks in this story; the plot is filled with all kinds of action; the characters are happy, laid back, and have a great humor; and there is a lot of bad trick playing and a whole bunch of cheating in this story. I think Twain was trying to show us an ideal example of friendship.
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Summary: A Review On Huck
Review: 'Come here, Huck,' Aunt Polly called from the front porch where she was washing the clothes, ' Don't you dare talk to that nigger again, you hear me, Huck, never!'
'Alright, I am coming I was just making a bargain,' Huck yelled back as he slipped the money in his pocket.
My essay is on the book Huckleberry Finn. I read this book and loved it. I think this book shows a friendship between a black slave and a white boy during a time when that was considered an unusual thing.
This book takes place during a time when blacks were not treated equal. Blacks were thought of as property not as humans. An example of this takes place in the down town slave market.
' Cheap niggers, get your cheap niggers,' a slave driver called out from on top of the stage. Families are being separated and children are crying while they are standing in shackles and cuffs. This is hatred.
In this book, there is a lot of action. Every time you turn the page somebody is getting into trouble. It even goes as far as to put on a play to rip people off.
' Come see the Play of Nonsense, the best in the world,' the duke yelled to the listeners. The duke and so called king are going to put on a play. Their idea is to rip people off and run with their money. It is a smart idea but later on they pay for it. The next night the play starts. Hundreds of people walk in and hand their money to the duke. Right when the play starts, the duke comes out and announces that there have been some misunderstandings and rushes off with
the money he collected from the audience. This book's plot is awesome.
In this story the main characters are laid back and have a great sense of humor. An example this happens when Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, are rafting down the huge river. Jim is in great danger, but they always have time to play tricks on other people.
Also, there is a lot of dirty tricks and cheating. All four characters have a good sense of humor and a mind that is made to get into trouble. An example of this takes place when Huck fakes his own death and fools everybody while he lives on a raft for two years. He left his Aunt Polly behind to mourn about him and fooled everybody else. For a while he stayed on a little island but then decided to raft down a river. He made his own camps and caught his own food. All this to him was a fun vacation. He loved it!
In conclusion, this book is awesome! My four beliefs are: there is a hatred toward blacks in this story; the plot is filled with all kinds of action; the characters are happy, laid back, and have a great humor; and there is a lot of bad trick playing and a whole bunch of cheating in this story. I think Twain was trying to show us an ideal example of friendship.
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Summary: A masterpiece of American literature
Review: Huckleberry Finn is truly a classic, and an indispensable part of the American literary canon. I put off reading the book for many years because I had - a many of you may have - an inaccurate preconception of the book: i.e., "I don't like that kind of country humor", or "I don't like those old-fashioned novel", or "I just don't like that kind of book." If you yourself have this kind of feeling about the book - let me assure you, friends, you should READ THIS BOOK. It is much, much more than that. It is a rich, stunningly accurate portrayal of the pre-Civil War South. It is also an enduring portrait of childhood. It is, quite simply, a masterpiece. Huck Finn is a character that, no matter who we are or how far removed from him we are, we can all relate to. It is also, in its use of particular American dialect, a very influential book. A quote you often see is the one Ernest Hemingway himself made about this book being the very archetype of the American novel. And it is true. Tom Sawyer was the first step, but this book is the culmination - it is the masterpiece. It is here that American literature found its voice, and stepped out from under the shadow of its neglected step-child relationship with English literature. It has a voice distinctly its own - distinctly American, and couldn't have come from anywhere else - and its immense influence on subsequent American lit is enormous, and cannot be overestimated. It is an absolutely archetypal novel. Also, its heroic portrayal of slavery was a very immediate thing as well. Its influence on such writers as Alice Walker and John Steinbeck - as well as, in some form, literally all great literature to come out America since - is profound. For this reason, and for its sheer adventure and narrative drive, it is an essential read for simply everybody.
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Summary: this is a great book
Review: I read this story for my tenth grade English class and it was great. the story will make you laugh, cry and smile. it has a great portrayal of the deep south before the Civil War. the only reason i gave it 4 stars is because it was sometimes hard to follow, but other than that, it was great
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Summary: One of the Top Ten Best Books Ever!!
Review: This book is about a boy who was taken in by a nice widow to be protected by his drunken father. The father got custody of him again. Huck was abused and chased around the house with a knife being called, "The Angel of Death." Huck stages his own death and runs away. While he's running away he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim. Huck and Jim then start to have weird adventures. This is one of the funniest books ever. It totally portrays the South as it was 150 years ago. It also portrays the innocence of children and their ability to make change. The book also has good morals which preach against the evils of slavery. If you're looking for a hillarious read, then buy this. If you're looking for an intellectual read, then buy this. If you're looking for just a great way to pass time, then read this. I give this masterpiece five stars.
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Summary: Deserving of all Credit
Review: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to Twain's prequel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, what the Ring Trilogy is to Tolkien's The Hobbit. In each case the author progressed from noteworthy effort to masterpiece. Huck Finn is a work of art. The funny thing is, he did it by breaking several of the "rules" in today's literature. Nowadays, aspiring writers are admonished to avoid writing dialect. According to the experts, it has all been done before and done well. They're talking about Huck Finn. Twain's book is a study in American rural dialect between the central and southern states in the nineteenth century. It is so dead-on and hilarious that you can't help but be drawn into the story. Another no-no he commits by today's standards is the preposterous coincidence. When Huck travels a thousand miles down river by raft only to show up weeks later and totally by coincidence at the home of his friend Tom Sawyer's Aunt Sally, it's beyond belief. Of course, the rest of the story is so good and well knitted that we don't particularly care, but my reaction was not "Aha!" but rather "Oh no!" Cheap plotting tricks have fallen from favor over the past 150 years. At the heart of the book's greatness, though, is characterization. Huck Finn is one of the most enduringly likable literary characters of all time, the classic unlikely hero. Tom Sawyer is a close second. And yet they are so different. Their words and actions may have surprised us chapter after chapter, but they always stayed true to the characters Twain created. And Twain's sly humanization of Jim, the lovable runaway slave, was ahead of his time and probably second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin in its contribution to the reduction of racial prejudice. Bravo!...
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Summary: Incredibly boring...
Review: I did not like this book when I had to read it for a class a few years ago. It's absolutely one of the most boring books I've ever read. It was too long and too drawn out. I've read other books and stories by Twain and they were so much better than this one. I definitely wouldn't recommend this book.
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Summary: Trouble maker Finn
Review: The story of Huck Finn starts with him living with a widow as a foster parent becuase his dad is gone and his mom is dead.The widow is raising him as a respectable boy but his dad shows up one day and kidnaps him. They go and live in a cabin in the woods. His dad is an abusive alcoholic and one day his dad threatens to kill him. So one night Huck fakes his own death and hides on an island in the mississippi river. While he's there he meets a runaway black man... and heads down the river. About half way down the river they meet 2 men or con artists. They continue down the river encountering many adventures.I thought this was a good book and I'm a person that does not like to read.If you can read this book you should.
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