Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford Mark Twain)

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Summary: One Lousy Escapade
Review: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a dull book that is kept alive only by its strong moral lesson that contradicts the rights of slavery. Jim, an African-American runaway slave, is on the search for his own freedom by escaping to the south. Shortly into his journey, he phenomenally runs into and befriends Huck, a rambunctious wild child who is also coincidentally running away from home! Although the lesson is important, I found that it clouded Twain in his ability to entertain me as a reader. Insignificant chapters and random characters slowly drag along as Huck defeats all odds in his unrealistic encounters that take place on the Mississippi River. Repeated character personalities and storyline ideas created confusion for me as I was also perplexed by Jim's heavy dialect. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who is actually looking for an actual action plot as it is a huge disappointment as a sequel to the thrilling Tom Sawyer novel.


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Summary: Huckleberry Finn Review
Review: I gave this book four out of five stars for a couple of different reasons. First of all the book clearly shows the reader what is taking place in the U.S. at this time and it helps set the plot of the story. The second reason I gave it this rank is because throughout the whole book there is always something exciting taking place and plenty of action. This helps keep the reader focused and into the book. Another reason for my ranking is because even though the book is mostly serious, Mark Twain adds some comedy into the book to help reveal some of the more serious times in the book. The length of the book is just about perfect, because the author doesn't try and drag on a certain part of the story. This makes the book more interesting. Finally, the reason I didn't give this book a perfect five out of five is because of the ending. I feel that the ending doesn't fit the book. This is cause throughout the whole book there is always action taking place, and then at the ending of the book it kind of stops at a dull point. I think the ending could have been changed or something a little more exciting could have took place.

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Summary: BOOK REVIEW BY: JESS
Review: Huckleberry Fin was a good an exciting book. It was easy to visualize what was going on when you were reading it. It was about a poor 13 year old boy named Huckleberry FIn. His father was a drunk, and would beat him so he decided to run away. Huck ran away with A former slave named Jim. They shared many adventures as they went from town to town. Huckleberry fin was a good book, and if you take the time to read it you will enjoy it.

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Summary: Huck Finn
Review: Huck Finn Starts out great the first fifteen chapters or so are great, but then it starts to get more and more boring as the novel progresses. If your a reader that can just plow through chapters of maninless boring junk punctuated by periods of awesome literature this is the book for you

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Summary: Matt Mandarino Huck Finn Review
Review: I really enjoyed this book, it's one of the few that we've read in english class that has intrigued me to keep reading and find out what happens next. I really thought it lived up to it's classic stature and deserves to be hailed as one of the best. I think that it is going overboard to have ever banned this book, and was almost an unintelligent move. In the book Mark Twain shows how rediculous the prejudices and racism was and how a young boy is able to see through it, while the use of the word nigger is simply added for accuracy, not vulgarity.

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Summary: Tom Dady Review for English Extra Credit for Mr. Bendalow
Review: (sorry if i mispelled your name). At first i found this book somewhat hard to understand given the very nature of the writing style i could easily imagine a southerner sitting on a porch with a pipe telling this story to his grand kids or something word for word. Asides from this though i was quickly taken with the characters and the subtle yet distinct philosophies and suggestions that the book is filled with behind the guise of an entertaining tail of a boy's adventures down the Mississippi River. I don't understand how any critic could call this book trash or see any reason to ban it in some school libraries. Both the book and the author are very insightful into not only human nature but also into humor as demonstrated again and again by the Duke and the King. Sam Clemens also expresses his low opinion of frontiers folk who just as readily want to lynch someone as they are drinking at a pub. Overall, if you can get past the way it was written, this is a very insightful book and i reccomend it to anyone who enjoy sa good story or to someone who can read between the lines.

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Summary: Huck Finn is da bomb
Review: So many coming of age books owe a debt of thanks to HUCK FINN. Salinger's CATCHER IN THE RYE is one, along with the more modern BARK OF THE DOGWOOD. There are others, but the first true one was HUCK. The genius of Mark Twain is that the entire story is conceptualized and told from the perspective of 13-14 year old orphan boy, with almost no formal education at all. The telling of the tale gets a bit complicated if we look at the use, or in this case, misuse of the English language. Ahead of its time, STILL, this is good solid American reading. Would also recommend the collection of short stories titled THE CHILDREN'S CORNER for some excellent reading. Cheers!

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Summary: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics)
Review: Personaly I didn't like the book whatsoever. I don't see what the big deal about the book is. It's considered one of America's best novels but I just don't see that. It's just a story about a stupid kid that runs away and that uses the "n" word one too many times.
I addition to this i think that the book shows a lot of racism. The "n" word was used more than 200 times and it's just stupid that the author had to include all this racism in the book just to get the point across to his audience.
Some people that have written reviews here might not be offeded by the racism that this book shows and I am surprised about this. It makes me angry to see that there are people out there saying how good of a book this is when there are serious issues with it.


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Summary: certainly good, but not all it's cracked up to be
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now, before I get flamed for what I put above, let me explain. This certainly is a good book, which a great many people have and do enjoy greatly. I'm not someone who thinks this book is racist, and I understand wholly the reason for twain's use of the n-word. that being said, and maybe it's just me because I have high expectations for everything I read, but I couldn't really get into it. I understand that huck is supposed to be uneducated and maybe a little stupid, but his entire character was completely uninteresting to me. Nothing in this book jumped out and me and grabbed my attention, making me want to read further. Hemingway said that ALL modern american literature comes from this book. Now while this book may have paved the way for such classics as "To kill a Mockingbird" among others,not to mention influenced a great many writers, I think this is a crock of crap. When I read modern fiction I don't see a whole lot coming from this book. In fact, I'm happy about this. I don't see why twain had to use this book to make political statements, because fiction and politics should have nothing to do with one another. to quote one of my favorite writers, stephen king "If fiction and politics ever do become interchangeable, I'm gong to kill myself because I won't know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do." That being said, I have made my main points for my dissapointment in this book, and maybe I have a lot to learn about literature still, but to think that as some people do, that you can't understand modern literature without liking this book, is bull.

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Summary: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Review: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is an entertaining but dark epic, considered a masterpiece by some and offensive by others.

This novel is set in the deep South during the antebellum period. Huckleberry Finn is a boy who, after being subjected to attempts to be "sivilized" by the Widow Douglas and after being kidnapped and detained by his alcoholic, abusive father, finally sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave. They strike up an unlikely friendship. When Huck was at home, he and Tom Sawyer pulled a few pranks on Jim, like taking his hat and making him believe that witches flew him around the country while he was sleeping. Now that he is spending more time with Jim, he starts to have a growing respect for him. During the entire journey, Jim treats Huck with respect, almost mothering him. Huck would later remember this, which will affect some of his decisions.

While floating down river, they encounter a drifting house with a dead man inside; they came very close to being caught by a dangerous gang, and nearly being run over by a steamboat. Two men who claim to have royal blood in them join Huck and Jim downstream. These men will unwittingly test the loyalty of Huck's friendship with Jim.

My opinion of this book is on the fence. I certainly am not fond of it. The dialog can be confusing at times, especially when Jim starts talking. Everyone, including black slaves and white Southerners, use the word nigger frequently. One issue with this is that Huck calls every black person he sees a nigger; is he being a racial bigot or is he just repeating what he has heard all his life? Is he wrong for saying that or can he be excused for it because that's the common word back then for a black slave.


Though this book is not one that I would pick up again and again to read, I do not have a passionate hatred for it either. I find certain parts humorous. For example: to find out information from the townspeople, Huck disguises himself in a dress and a sunbonnet. Or when the old man's claim to royalty was that he was the son of Louis the XVI and Marie Antoinette. This book also brings to light how cruel human beings can be to one another. For example: When his friend Buck Grangerford and the male side of his family are killed in a feud with the Shepherdson family: They shoot Buck without a care. Huck would remember that all his life.

This is definitely not a children's book. The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn moves away from the child-like innocence Mark Twain used for Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain instead replaces it with a darker plot, with deeper characters, all the while taking a stab at slavery and the underlying flaws in human nature.