Huck Finn
I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. The book had it's ups and downs. It was a little slow, but it had a lot of great details. Sometimes it was hard to understand some of the characters when they were speaking because they were "talking" in that old southern slang. Jim was the hardest one to understand, "Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you?--what I tell you up dah on Jackson islan? I tole you I got a hairy breas' en what's design un it; en I tole you I ben righ wunst, eh gwinter to be rich agin; eh it's come true heah she is! Dah, now! doan' talk to me--signs is signs, mine tell you; en I knowed jis' 's well 'at' I 'uz gwinter be rich agin as I's stannin' heah dis minute!" (Jim; 432) A lot of his speech is broken. But overall I wouldn't say that the book is one of the better books I read, but it was worth the time I took reading it. Through out the book, although it was hard understanding him, Jim was my favorite character. Jim has a very loving heart. He would go out of his way, risking himself, to help another person. Jim also had this simplemindedness about him. He seemed so innocent most of the time. He generally didn't argue or get in any fights with anyone. At the end of the book we find out
Although I said the book was somewhat boring it did have it's up parts. There were quite a few very surprising parts that completely caught me off guard. For instance when I found out that the two men that Tom and Jim were being so nice to and were traveling with had turned Jim in. Not only did he turn Jim in but he had the Gaul to say, "Fact is, we'd come to consider him our nigger; yes, we did consider him so--goodness knows we had enough trouble for him." (The Duke; 320) That made me so angry. Jim was never any trouble to them, in fact he waited on the hand and foot. I was also surprised by the fact that Miss Watson freed Jim in her will. I didn't expect that to come out. And the way that Tom stated it was amusing yet still shocking. He said, "The hain't no right to shut him up! Shove---and don't you lose a minute. Turn him loose! he ain't no slave; he's as free as any cretur that walks this earth!" Tom Sawyer; 427) He then went on to explain how Miss Watson freed Jim. But it still shocked me to know that Tom and Huck went through all that work, and Tom insisted on it, and knew the whole time Jim was already free. Just like there is a character that I enjoyed a lot, there's also a character that irritated me to no end. Tom Sawyer, although a very good character in the story, annoyed me. I have enough sense to recognize that Tom was an essential part in this story, but enough of a strong opinion to state my feelings. His obsession with having everything be an adventure was the main reason his
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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