Reader response: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This story is about a boy named Huck Finn who runs away from home and has various adventures. It is set in the 1800's-southern United States. Aside from Huck the main characters are Jim, the king and duke, Huck’s dad, and Miss Watson. Huck has conflicts about becoming civilized. Huck has many brawls while traveling with Jim.
Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain is one of the most well rounded books every written and it has everything that a reader could ask for in a book to keep the reader from wanting to put the book down. This is a story based on adventure and race and religion that makes this story what it is and how great of a novel it truly is. Throughout this whole story, Huck is going through anything that a young kid should not be having to go through but the only good thing about it is that he is never alone. He either has two other main characters to help him out through tough situations or just make those situations even harder and these two characters are Jim or Tom.
Huckleberry Finn is the main character of this story and he goes through everything that you could think of. One of the main things that Huck has had to deal with was his drunken father. He has never been brought up as a socially accurate person and he helps Jim who is an African American slave who has escaped from Miss Watson. Jim is legally Miss Watson’s property but sense Huck has never really been taught things that kids with normal lives have been taught, he doesn’t know right from wrong but he feels that it is right to help Jim who has become one of Huck’s best friends. Sense Huck is just a kid, he doesn’t really know the rules for society so he basically just makes up his own rules and it seems as if this kid is a very smart kid who learned how things go on his own and it seemed to work out very well for him.
Jim is an African American slave owned by Miss Watson. He has escaped from her captivity and is being helped out by Huck. Jim actually is a really smart man and he is also a very superstitious man but these superstitions help him reveal how smart he really is. Jim actually has a wife and kids in whom he loves more than anything and thinking about them help him get away from being a slave and he will do whatever it takes to be with them again someday. This factor about the story proves that society is not as correct as Tom thinks it is. Just because Jim is a slave does not mean that he is just a person with no feelings and nothing to live for. If anything he has more to live for than a lot of people in this story.
Huck is like any child. He can’t stand being bottled up like the Widow wants him to be. He runs away to be free and have fun and never ending adventure. I loved the story of Huckleberry Finn. The adventures were exiting, the fears realistic, and the successes ecstatic. I think that this story really is the Great American Novel and it is by far one of my favorite books that I have ever read in my life. You could not ask for a more fulfill story that has some of the best aspects of an adventure story that you could ever imagine. I’m not going to go into much of the detail of the story because I don’t want to ruin anything about the story and I just think that it would be so much better if you would just read it just knowing everything that I have told you so far. I think that everything that I have told you is enough to make you want to read this book and let you have a great time while reading it.