Thursday, June 17, 2010

Huck Finn's Adventure

I didn't think i would like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but I really enjoyed it towards the end of the book I was hooked. This book seemed to be much like other adventure stories but with a new twist. The hero/Huck/ starts out good /living with the widow/ then starts their adventure, has small troubles /living with his dad/ finds a companion /Jim/ runs into the villains/the king and duke/ then defeats the villains, and finally comes to the finally /where Huck finds Tom Sawyer and frees Jim/and of course everything goes back to normal/when Aunt Sally adopts him./
In my opinion repetition is a huge theme in this amazing book written by Mark Twain. The major one is Huck being taught and civilized as you might say with the widow to going back to doing things his own way with a higher power still ordering him around when his dad takes him back. He stays doing things his own way when he runs-away with Jim, then goes back to his civilized ways when the Grangerfords take him in. When Jim and Huck leave that land, they meet the duke and the king and Huck is put back in the position of when he was with his dad. And of course in the end when Huck is with Aunt Sally he goes back to the civilized way which of course is where he started the story out. The other repetition which is much smaller and matters very little to the story is the fact of Jim being rich before and coming out a rich man in the end as he said.
There are a lot of developed character in this book nearly every character you come to in the book, you have an insight to even Emmeline Grangerford who is dead in the book. Of all the characters in the book I liked Tom Sawyer the best. He is so creative and is worried about doing everything the most complicated and creative ways like he sees in books. He does everything with honor however, not taking what is not needed in his mind anyway, and freeing a man /even though he knew Jim was already free./ Tom Sawyer is of course Huckleberry Finns friend who Huck starts the book out with and ends the story with. Tom Sawyer plays a huge part in this book, whether its him ordering Huck around or Huck thinking of him for inspiration or acting as him when at Aunt Sally's.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Huck Finn

With one of my older sisters being in honors a couple years ago I've had this book read to me before. I thought it was a pointless book and had no meaning what so ever.... but now reading it for a second time I love it! I read it when I wake up or go to bed and sometimes randomly throughout the day. I'm to the point where i dont even want to put it down until I'm through it but not in the bad way i finish other books.
This book is amazing it has a fast pace even at the slowest times... Huck is clever and you never know whats going to happen next... Its an exciting book, i can't wait to finish it, and start the next book.!!!