Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A detailed Summary of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain's most loved, most influential, and most controversial books of all time. Considered one of the first "truly American" novels, this book was banned from several libraries after its release in 1885. But in 1935, Ernest Hemmingway wrote that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."

The success of this book has many different reasons; first of all it is short and concise it doesn't dwell deeply on an inert subject, it gets straight to the point making it an easy book to read. The controversy of this book also helped it in becoming a classic, because it was banned from schools and libraries it caught people's attention and gave reader's even more reason to praise it. Kids weren't supposed to act in the manner that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn did, they were running around doing whatever they wished with no parental consent, or no parents for that matter. So this book was just a satirical view of society during that time period making fun of school, parents, slavery and the whole lifestyle of the

With the civil rights movements brought into full effect in the 50's this book was again brought under fire, this time by the NAACP. Its use of offensive language, constantly using the 'n word' throughout the book took the black community by storm. They were up in arms about the whole situation calling it a racist book and trying to remove it from its status as an American classic. Jim is portrayed as being a little kid trapped in a man's body, also known as the "Sambo" stereotype, and being ordered around by a fifteen-year old Huck, this racist portrayal angered many.

The Road genre has many recurring themes to it and one of them is the "buddy theme" and in this book that theme is very present. It's not your normal male with male relationship which makes it very unique from most road themes. In this book there is a black man and a white boy that are traveling together this very extreme diversity, especially at the time where black men were usually slaves, provides for an interesting relationship. In the beginning of the book Huck thinks of Jim as just another typical slave that is dumb and lazy, but as time goes on and they spend more time together he realizes that Jim is a person just like him and he has feelings that can be hurt as well.

Huck, and even Tom and Jim are the anti-heroes that are often portrayed in the main characters of the road genre. They break the laws but with good-reasoning behind their actions. Huck has a golden heart and can't turn Jim in even though it would have been the easy way out, instead he realizes that Jim should not be a slave again and helps him to escape. Anti-heroes might break the law but that is only because they place their morals above the law, to some that might be a bad thing but in general society respects those that actually do it.

Even though this is a very simple book to read and has an easy dialogue there are many underlying themes throughout the book. The first one is the theme of movement. Jim runs away because he thought he was going to

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Approximate Word count = 1364
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English