Book completed

[eve_prime]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. I'm fairly sure that I read Tom Sawyer as a kid, and I know that story, but my only attempt to read Huck Finn had failed because reading his vernacular can be tiresome. However, having just read James, I had more of an incentive. Huck Finn is basically a story of an abused and ignorant boy's moral development. He knows stealing is wrong, for example, but he's "stolen" away Jim, who is someone else's property. Yet, Jim is his friend and grateful to him, so what is right? The main part of the story is their series of encounters with a couple of con artists, and as Huck develops empathy for their victims (at least, those who are reasonably kind and innocent), he begins to strategize how to help them. Other than that, he's fairly passive. Near the end, Tom Sawyer shows up and has all sorts of extravagant plans for them to enact as part of rescuing Jim from the cabin in which he's imprisoned until his owner can claim him - it's entertaining but bizarre.

Comments

[kaishin108]

I remember loving that book when I was young!

[claidheamhmor]

I really should read it again sometime; I read it once as a kid.

[eve_prime]

If you do, please let me know what you think.