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I didn't really like the book at first because it was way too confusing. I had to pay attention to every single word to make sense of what I am reading about. I got the main things happening right away but I was always lost where Huck and Jim were located and what exactly happened where. But, I was very happy once I got to the end of the book and I don't regret reading it. Overall it was very inspiring. It IS a MUST read. But keep in mind that it is not one of those books that will keep many at
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Samuel Clemens' classic novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" tells the story of a young Huckleberry Finn who goes through numerous escapades with his friend, Jim. The novel begins with an immature Huck who helps Jim, a slave, find freedom, even though it is against the typical southern mind-set. As Huck and Jim go through different adventures, they both grow and learn to respect and trust each other. The novel contains a plethora of themes, such as: filial love, friendship, racism, stere
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This book, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain was very fascinating to me. It intrigued me how a white boy had helped an escaped black slave earn his freedom. Obviously, it rarely happened in the pre civil war era but the book itself had been unique. A lot of racism had been found including stereotypes and family relationships. I specially enjoyed this book because of Huck’s perspective of Jim. Huck’s conscious had affected him since he was helping a slave. He wasn’t sure if he w
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“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is a phenomenal read. It is a very controversial novel filled with evident themes of brotherly love, language, friendship, family, racism, religion, superstitions, identity and respect. It breaks as well as reinforces stereotypes of blacks. It demonstrates the fact that both blacks and whites can be friends. It shows that blacks are capable of communicating and influencing whites. Jim definitely had a huge impact on Huck. Huck was able to learn
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens was a fantastic book to read. I enjoyed the story line and plot; the way it flowed and the imagery it presented. Huck is a young boy who escapes containment from his abusive father in a Pre-Civil War America. Just when he thinks he is alone in the world and completely free he runs into Jim. Jim is a slave from an old care taker named the Widow. Jim finds out he is going to be sold even farther South and runs away. Slavery is eve
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This book took me back to Pre-Civil War America. Twain really captures society and language from this time period. I admit that at times it was a challenge to understand when Jim spoke because I had to read it out loud to myself in order to understand. For a major part of the story I felt that the author was trying to make a stand against slavery, but towards the ending I believe that Twain's perspective changes when Tom is re-introduced. Tom does not care for Jim, or his freedom which makes a d
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This book was ok, I enjoyed most of it. It has themes of friendship, survival, adventure, assimilation, and racism. One aspect of the book that I really enjoyed is the ways Mark Twains life correlates almost completely.I also liked the contraversy that this book garnered, the contraversy on the use of the "N" word. This book is great too because it shows how people were assimilating to having black people in society after the Civil War. I also enjoyed this book because it was like a kids book. I
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Huckleberry Finn was a pretty good book. At first, when I started to read this book, I absolutely despised it because I didn't understand anything. I thought that I was reading nonsense, but it was just me who didn't understand. When i basically just re-read the book, I understood the book much better than I did before, and it was much more interesting, and I was happy. I didn't like the book because at some points it became really boring at points where there was too much description, and I dis
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A classic novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain depicts Southern society in a post Civil War environment. A young boy, Huckleberry Finn, narrates this novel. His adventures to escape from his abusive and alcoholic father lead him into various journeys with a fellow runaway slave, Jim. His adventures with Jim are paradoxical. The common southern mind set made the white race always “superior” to the blacks. Such as no contact should be demonstrated and of course never befriend
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I remember reading the shortened version as a child. However, after reading the classic, I find my view of the book much darker than I would like. Also with the media and today's world feeling negative towards Twain's use fo the N-word, I found myself okay with the word in there, even though I dont say it myself. I was surprised at how muh mature and older Huck became through his adventures with Jim, as opposed to Tom, who didnt seem to grow at all. His maturity had skyrocketed and shows the bec
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This book by Mark Twain is a very good book. Twain does a good job showing how the society was during the Gilded Age. He shows what the people thought of the government. Not only that but also what people thought about others as well. For example he did a good job showing how the people thought of the African Americans during that time. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in knowing how things were during the Gilded Age.
In this book, Mark Twain mentioned the N-Word over and over. The N-Word served as an epithet toward black people. The N-Word in this book shows the reality in the society and demonstrates how black people were being degrading in the society. The N-Word is a powerful word, it contains the history of black people’s sufferings, and it means a lot to people who understand the real meaning of the word.
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However, we see the close relationship between Jim and Huck despite the fact that in the society ba ...more
I didn't really enjoy this book as much as I thought I would because I wasn't able to put my self in the charcters shoes so I couldn't relate to them. Although it was intresting to see how the Mark Twain put many underling messages in the story. The adventure in the book was good because you saw how the main charcter was able to grow and how his perspective on life changes throughout the story.
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Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" is a classic novel that reveals Southern society prior to the civil war. Twain establishes many themes that are controversial to the beliefs of many Americans at that time, such as the brotherly bond and friendship between a blacks and whites. Also, referring to Pap in the novel, it showed a white man that was financially inadequate to support even himself and he was an alcoholic, while the book discusses successful black people in America. I would recommend this
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This boook is about a boy called tom who lives with his dead's mother's sister, cousin and step-brother.Tom falls in love with agirl at school and starts flirting with her. Tom was kind of a bad boy. Tom and his friend huck goes to the cemetry and find out about the murder of Muff Potter. They were the only one who actually knew the truth but they turned in an innocent man for that murder. Tom became a surprise eyewitness and convicted Injun Joe as the murderer.Tom and Joe therefore get lost in
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At first I didn't find this book to be interesting at all and didnt understand why many individuals considered it a great "American Story", but once I learned about Mark Twain lifestyle I understood his point. What I found to be very helpful in understanding this novel, Joseph L. Coulombe's mini passage that broke down Twain's changes in life and what inspired him to write Huckleberry Finn. I believe that Twain's message from the novel is that he wants society to know that it's normal to find si
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A great reading in all aspects of what a reader desires. The adventures of huckleberry Finn is a great novel that discusses the correct or incorrect use of the N-word, used in times of slavery and the division of north America.
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An ok book with a horrible ending. I don't think that this book was worth reading at all. The story dragged along for way too long, and I feel like it's been given too much hype. With all of these reviews saying that it would be one of my top favorite books of all time I thought that it might live up to it's word. I even thought this up to the chapter that he ran away down the river, which is the whole plot of the story. The only thing that this book is good for is the overuse of the "n-word". W
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The novel was very good. My favorite part is when the Duck and the dauphin get lynched because I didn't like their actions. In this novel there are many different themes onw I liked the most was superstitions because I found it very creepy.
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