I couldn't stop crying when Huck had lost Jim, and I couldn't see how he would ever come back to Tom Sawyer.

The book plays a game of coincidence, like in Oliver Twist, where Oliver meets with his father's friend, and meets his Aunts, as Huckleberry Finn meets with Tom Sawyer, his long-lost friend, on Phelps's plantation, trying to free Jim, a black man, from the prison.Īt the beginning of the book, I didn't like it much until Huck went to the circus, when I couldn't stop laughing at the vivid description, making it seem as if I was there next to Huck, looking at the drunkard revealing himself as one of the circus clowns. Like Charles Dickens, who makes the rich pay attention to the poor, Mark Twain explains what the bad things of slavery are to the white, and mocks the life of the rich, saying how it can be reformed by the homeless like Huck. I think that 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is a good book, it follows 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and introduces American language to European readers.

It shows that that strange thing, the conscience - the unerring monitor - can be trained to approve any wild thing you want it to approve if you begin its education early and stick to it.I would review 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as a 5-star book because it has an anti-slavery message, an amusing plot, and it is very moving. It seemed natural enough to me then natural enough that Huck and his father the worthless loafer should feel it & approve it, though it seems now absurd. That this sentiment should exist among slave-owners is comprehensible - there were good commercial reasons for it - but that it should exist and did exist among the paupers, the loafers the tag-rag and bobtail of the community, and in a passionate and uncompromising form, is not in our remote day realizable. To help steal a horse or a cow was a low crime, but to help a hunted slave, or feed him or shelter him, or hide him, or comfort him, in his troubles, his terrors, his despair, or hesitate to promptly to betray him to the slave-catcher when opportunity offered was a much baser crime, and carried with it a stain, a moral smirch which nothing could wipe away.

'In those old slave-holding days, the whole community was agreed as to one thing - the awful sacredness of slave property.

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