The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

After reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", my opinion of the book is somewhat favorable, but it defiantley was not my favorite read. I know they say, "dont judge a book by it's cover", but after only receiving the book I could tell that it would be old fashioned, and most likely pass by very slowly. After finishing, i was correct in this assumption, but also, I was sort of surpised. These are the things that made the book what it is, and even though it passes by slow there is always some kind of prediciment that Huck Finn finds himself in. The old fashioned writing and the incorecttly spelled things that were said by huck I.E. "DEY, DAT, GIT" added a since of authenticity to the book, making it seem realistic. Also, it showed that Huck was not the most literate and could defiantley grow as a person, which throughout the novel, he does.

A reacurring theme that I noticed throughout the book was the use of characters lying. Huck lying about his death, the "duke" and th "dauphin" lying to be such, and also Huck lying by not telling the truth to Jim about there false indentities. Lastly, Huck lying about being Tom near the end of the novel. The character that I can see myself relating to the most is Huck, because he is so carefree and is constately changing and growing as a person. I find myself, also in different situations than him, acting the same way that I believe he would. I am too changing and growing as a person, only being in highschool, but learning alot of new things and becoming more mature and tolerant just as Huck does in the novel. Also because of this, Huck is the character that I admire most in the story. I think the setting is important in the novel because it is contsantly changing, making the story more interesing and broad. From sailing down the river to roaming down praires, there is always a change of adventure when there is a change of setting.

In the novel, i really dislike the idea of how African Americans are perseved. Although I know that during that time it was normal in the era of time to treat them as slaves and such, it really stood out to me that Huck Finn continued to help out Jim, who happened to be a great slave. I was surpised by the fact that at times he questioned what he was doing was wrong, but in the end he always made the right desicion. I think the relashionship between Jim and Huck is interesting, if not the most interesting, of the entire novel becasue of this and the way Huck continues to help Jim. Another relashionship that i found interesting was that of Tom and Jim, because Tom was also white, but continued to help. Eventhough he was doing it more so to satisfy his taste of adventure, i still think that it was good that he helped Jim. At times though, i felt Tom put them in situations that were unnessary and that did not make since, but to me they did make the novel more interesting. At this point, if i was Huck, I would have told Tom to stop with the nonsense and that we need to save our friend.

Im happy that I got the opportunity to read this book, because without it being assigned I never would have. I look forward to reading the next novels to see what they have in store. Until next time, Maxwell