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Things I liked:
The characters voice and train of thought frequently made me smile. The way his mind came up against big moral issues like slavery and murder and things like that were provocative, making me wonder about my own rational for strongly held beliefs.
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The characters voice and train of thought frequently made me smile. The way his mind came up against big moral issues like slavery and murder and things like that were provocative, making me wonder about my own rational for strongly held beliefs.
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I read this back in sophomore English -- or maybe I just read the first half of it, because I could not at all remember much of anything after Huck and Jim "ran by Cairo." I remember struggling with this book the first time around, and at first, this go-around was not much better. My problem was that I was reading in short spurts between tending the kids. Huck's dialect is, in my unprofessional opinion, pretty authentic, and while I thought his "voice" added much to the flavor of the story, it d
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3rd (possibly 4th) reading:
The story of Huck and Jim is told with humor, pathos, and suspense and is well worth reading. During this reading, I was especially intrigued by the tension between Huck's instinctive moral compass and the external rules he believed himself to be violating. My only quibble with the story is that the Tom Sawyer bit at the end seems gratuitous. As a character, Tom is callous and annoying, and his meddling seemed to dilute the relationship between Huck and Jim.
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The story of Huck and Jim is told with humor, pathos, and suspense and is well worth reading. During this reading, I was especially intrigued by the tension between Huck's instinctive moral compass and the external rules he believed himself to be violating. My only quibble with the story is that the Tom Sawyer bit at the end seems gratuitous. As a character, Tom is callous and annoying, and his meddling seemed to dilute the relationship between Huck and Jim.
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