The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMARK TWAIN AND“THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN”Mark Twain was born on the Missouri frontier and spent his childhood there. His real name is actually Samuel Langhorne Clemens. At the age of 12 he quit school in order to earn his living. At the age of 15 he already wrote his first article and by the time he was 16 he had his first short novel published. In 1857 he was an apprentice steamboat pilot on a boat that left Mississippi and was leading towards New Orleans. His characters were created because of the people and the situations he encountered on this trip.
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a sequel to “Tom Sawyer”. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is one of the masterpieces of American literature. It was first published in America in January 1885. From all of Mark Twain’s novels this one was the only that sold best at its initial appearance. Although it was criticized a lot too. In 1885 it was even banished from the Concord Public Library.
The novel presents the things a thirteen year old child goes through when trying to save a black slave from the woman that wanted to adopt him and educate him to meet the standards of the society she lives in. The two characters, in their journey, meet some dangerous people, like the three thieves they meet on a crashed steamboat, but also some good characters, such as Grangerford family who treated Huck very nice. The Duke and the King are also two characters Huck and Jim meet on their journey down the Mississippi river. This two make money by cheating people in the towns near the river. After a while the Duke and the King sell Jim saying he is a runaway slave from New Orleans. Huck decides to rescue Jim so he follows him to the house where he was sold, only to find out it was the house of Tom Sawyer’s aunt Sally. The two boys try to get Jim out. They convince the town that a group of thieves are trying to steal Jim. That same night they get Jim and run away.
[Cross-posted from The Daily Beast.]
I had the opportunity to go to a place called the house of Tom Sawyer the day before he went missing. Tom is a white man with a shaved head, red hair, and beard. He has a pretty good look that I’ve never seen before in a picture. Tom used to live in the house and had a pretty nice old barn. All Tom’s belongings were in a nice little shed that is now his house. In the house of Tom Sawyer the “somewhat-young” son, James, had this dream about how to get through everything for a little while, but all the bad things that had hit his mother and father had put a stop to it! James’s father had been killed by the Red Viper and his mother was pregnant for a few days, but only after he became sick, so they thought it was time to get the whole house out of the house, so they called a few of his friends to help, and Tom asked one of the boys, John, a couple of their friends, to come to Tom Sawyer, but he couldn’t with his parents (his parents were of European descent, which was why he was a little sick, so John took a short break from school. [Cross-posted from The Daily Beast.]
The next few days seemed to provide the most dramatic and suspenseful scenes, but one interesting point that stood out to me about this episode was that there are a couple of small clues to the murder of Tom Sawyer during the final days of his life. While Tom got stabbed and then died while under water, the boys did not die while under water. It was a fact that there was a long time before James got drunk and tried to escape. While the boys were there, they did escape. That’s not to say any of that is good (at least after all you are in a bad mood all day) but that is one of the best things about James. While his family were there, James did not stay in Tom’s safehouse. It was that safehouse that kept him safe from the Red Viper. I actually think it is the safehouse, but that would have had to be a very difficult puzzle to figure out since it is a long and winding road that takes him across the Mississippi. You wouldn’t think in the same way that you make out a person’s body being eaten by a snake or something as that would’ve been a very difficult puzzle to solve. You wouldn’t know what they were eating beforehand. So it might as well have been food. The only thing that could have made you really want to find that safehouse and take it away from Tom in his first act was the fact that a man was there when he got stabbed and died while that man was trying to escape. The guy who is standing outside that safehouse right now, Tom, was in there from right after that first stab. He was clearly alive. The person who is standing next to him at that time probably wasn’t the snake and the person who took the knife in question probably isn’t the snake. But the guy who was standing in the back room also is alive, even though he didn’t try to escape, and as long as Tom was there just like this, one would know that even they were there as well. This was not just a random act of violence. Tom just disappeared, and at that point in time a man in a black suit pulled a white dog out of his front door at one point, and that dog became the first person that died on the spot. That’s not to say that the man in the suit was violent, just that he was there just like this. That’s just the person who actually pulled the dog out of his mouth and
The farmers of the town start shooting them and gets Tom in the leg. They catch them, and Jim is treated bad until the doctor explains that he help him to take care of the boy. When Tom awakens he demands that they let Jim go. Jim is free. Huck find out his father is dead. Aunt Sally wants to adopt Huck but he refuses. Huck concludes the novel stating he would never have undertaken the task of writing out his story in a book, had he known it would take so long to complete.
By using a child as his main character, Twain is able to compare the power and also the vulnerability of a child with the ones of a black slave. The reader can see that they are both in similar positions. Such as: they are both abused, each of them is in the position of losing their freedom and both are at the mercy of white adult men.
HUCKLEBERRY FINNBeing just a boy, Huck does not take his principles and values for granted. Twain shows that conclusions about right and wrong based on experience can mostly