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.

1 comment:

  1. I don't think repetition is the word you are looking for. What I see you alluding to is events coming full-circle, and this is hitting on the idea of irony.

    Do you think The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an ironic book? When you talk about Huck starting out civilized and ending civilized, Jim being rich, Tom knowing the truth, the experience with the king and duke, so on and so forth, do you see a pattern emerging and any irony occurring? These two things seem to be the center of your post.

    Think about it and then maybe resond with a follow-up post to this one looking at irony and how the structure of a novel is key to that element of irony.

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