An American ClassicThat Everyone Should Read And Enjoy..

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	• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Replica Books, 2002 - 418 pages average customer review:based on 508 reviews
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highly recommended

A great book telling of society's problems

Preceding The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which ends after both Tom and Huck receive a large sum of money after finding a gold stash hidden by robbers. Both take place in the small town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, sometime before the start of the civil war. This helps to set up one of the main conflicts of the book, the issue of slavery. The story is told in the eyes of Huck Finn, who's skeptical view of the world allows him to think for himself what is right and wrong based on his sense of morals rather than jumping on the band wagon and coming out upright disliking slaves and regarding them as property, as much of what the south did during those times.

After being kidnapped by his biological father, he runs away and hides out on Jackson's Island and meets Jim, a run away slave. Although he has initial doubts on helping a runaway slave, he acts on what he believes to be right and team up. Throughout the story, Huck is tempted many times to turn Jim in for reward, and Twain incorporates these ideas through the characters surrounding Huck, like the con artists he is forced to join together with one time. They eventually sell Jim to Tom's aunt and uncle, and through a misunderstanding they think Huck is Tom and Tom is Sid, Tom's younger brother. Although Huck is initially surprised by the fact that Tom is willing to help Huck rescue Jim, because unlike Huck who was a social misfit, Tom was the product of middle-class society, strictly enforcing to the established rules by society. He acts as the foil for Huck through his strict adherence to rules despite moral issues while Huck acts solely through his own independent way of thinking. When Jim is "free" Huck learns that Jim had been free all along in the will left by the former slave's master. He realizes that was the reason why Tom was willing to help him. From the first book, the reader generally regards Tom as the good guy of the story, but it seems that in this novel, our view of Tom changes. He is willing to cause harm and risk lives for his own selfish motives.

When all is well and over, Huck begins to see the world more clearly for himself, saying that he does not want to be civilized because it would mean losing his sense of logic and acting on cold and strict rules. He decides to go west, toward Indian territories unbound by these rules where he can decide for what is right and wrong.

Twain's story is seemingly focused on Huck's "coming of age" with his discovery of the hypocrisy of the otherwise barbaric society. Where they cold-heartedly abide by rules and treat black people, who are also human as pieces of property to be bought and sold at their master's every whim.

I would advise anyone to read this book because it has such a strong message and it reads well due to all the action in the story. In addition, Twain's use of foils allow the reader to see both sides of the story, albeit a little biased because it was told from Huck's point of view. All in all, it makes for one great book to read!

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Colorful and darkly funny satire

Twain's colorful and darkly funny critique of the antebellum American South is no less stinging (and no less controversial) 125 years after it was first published. Its satire of race relations, vigilantism, hypocrisy, and romanticism may remain just as relevant, but it's Huck and Jim's travels down the Mississippi River - the quintessential journey to reinvent oneself - that makes Huck Finn the decisive Great American Novel.

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An American ClassicThat Everyone Should Read And Enjoy..

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a boy named Huck who lives in Missouri in the 1930's where and when slavery is allowed. He has been brought up around slaves and sees slavery as being an acceptable practice because he has never really seen what goes on behind the scenes and how blacks are really treated in the United State at the time. One day Huck decides to escape from the madness of his family and abusive father, fakes his own death, and runs away. Jim, a slave friend of Huck's is blamed for the murder and runs away from the chaos of the town's reaction. Jim and Huck run into each other while being on the run early on and decided to stick together and go down the river together. A part of the reason why they decide to stick together is because Huck decides he wants to free Jim. They encounter different obstacles and adventures along the way. Through their friendship they hope to make it down the river safely together and in one piece in hopes of giving Jim the freedom he deserves and Huck is just in it for the independence and the love of being on his own with no worries or people not letting him do what he wants to do. Huck and Jim also experience many things along the way down the river and run into other people who help them with their journey and other who try to stop it. They get a better picture of how slaves are actually treated in the south and both are shocked by the mistreatment. Seeing this mistreatment of slaves and talking to a few slaves about their situations pushes Huck and Jim to try even harder at making it down the river safely and freeing Jim once and for all.
The main theme of this book is friendship and compassion. Through friendship and compassion Huck and Jim go on this incredible adventure together and with compassion and care for one another they look after each other and both want the best possible outcome and result for each other. Major issues in the book include seeing slaves being mistreated, death of friends, and evading capture by the people after Huck and Jim. The style of writing is certainly an interesting one and at times I got frustrated with the way the author presented the story and how Huck and Jim talk. Both are semi-illiterate and say things in a different way then one would say things now and how one would say things correctly at the time. The `N" word is used constantly throughout the book but it makes sense because it was used commonly and throughout the nation by many at this time. While it's not acceptable to be used nowadays, it was more acceptable back then. The author's description of the characters and the south makes the story an excellent one. The detail and description the author provides and even how he present the dialogue makes you feel like you are right there alongside Huck and Jim on a raft sailing down the Mississippi River. I personally think that anyone would enjoy this book and it's definitely a true American classic. Twain is a genius and this story certainly proves that. The man knows how to write ad good story that will make people think and feel for the characters and situations in the book.
JLind555 says this book is a controversial masterpiece and I would have to agree with them because while it is in fact controversial with the subject matter of the book it is a masterpiece because of the overall story and how everyone who reads it gets something out of it. Justin Evans claims the book is one that is not meant for everyone, but that everybody should read it. I have to agree with this point too because it certainly isn't for everybody. Some people may not be able to handle some parts of this book, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't read it because they will learn many things from this book. Tessa says this book is dragged out and boring and while it wasn't the most exciting book in the world the entire time, it wasn't boring at all. This book is full of constant action and adventure and I don't see how anybody can claim a book like this is boring. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and could see myself reading it over and over because of it's positive message and story. I give this book five stars.

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An Enjoying Read with Deep Ideas

Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful book that blends entertainment and philosophy in an easy to read package. While this book can be fully enjoyed for its plot and story, the book shines for its ideas on morality as it is seen through the eyes of a teenage boy.

Twain is an abolitionist, a proponent of anti- slavery and equality. Creating the character of Huck, Twain has injected his own ideas about slavery in the south into this novel. He presents his own ideas about morality though this young, and rather naïve, teenage boy and his travels throughout a corrupt world. Everywhere he turns, he is greeted by an act of indecency. By leaving his home and traveling aboard, Huck matures every time he experiences an act of human kindness or malevolence. Huck struggles to understand what is right or wrong when his southern upbringing contradicts his own personal morals. At the end, Huck has learned and experienced enough to develop his own set of morals and help a fugitive slave escape, even though his action is an outcry towards southern values. Twain's novel is more than a story about a young boy on his wild adventures; instead it is a story of his growth.

As irrelevant as it is to make comparisons, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a much darker book in comparison to Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry Finn contains countless lines of humor and satire but its overall ideas are deeper and gloomier as they concern human morality, especially in the context of slavery. While both are extremely enjoyable reads, Huckleberry Finn contains theological elements that make it a more serious book. Nevertheless, Twain's trademark humor and style are easily identified as he flawless weaves them together with the deeper elements within the book.

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A true American masterpiece

This book has the reputation in some quarters as the greatest American novel, and now that I have finally read it, I can see why. Mark Twain's great achievement is to write a story that is so thrilling, engaging and, at times, laugh out loud funny, yet can also be appreciated on a very deep level.

Huck Finn resists being "civilized," but he proves to have a practical intelligence and an innate moral sense that is superior to that of the civilized and educated society that he stands outside of. This is most powerfully represented by Huck's friendship with the runaway slave Jim. Even though he believes, along with the rest of white society at that time, that he is doing the wrong thing by helping Jim escape, he cannot turn his back on a friend and decides that he would rather be "bad" than betray his trust. They are joined for a time by a pair of con men who are terribly cultured (or at least do a good job of faking it), and Huck is deeply impressed by them until he begins to realize the full extent of the harm they cause. This is also the funniest part of the book. The last section, in which Tom Sawyer reappears, slows things down a bit, but here, too, we see Huck's superiority. Tom is an eternal boy, always looking for games and adventure. For reasons I won't reveal here, we learn at the end of the book that Tom has inadvertently been quite cruel to Jim because of this never-ending search for excitement, and that Huck would have done better to obey his own inclinations rather than follow the lead of the friend he idolized.

As in "Tom Sawyer," Twain presents a fascinating and detailed picture of life on the Mississippi before the Civil War. He makes it easy for us to immerse ourselves in Huck's world. Very highly recommended.

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