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Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of the most exciting and adventuresome of literary lives. Raised in the river town of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at age twelve to work. He was successively a journeyman printer, a steamboat pilot, a Confederate soldier (no more than a few weeks), and a prospector, miner and reporter in the western territories. His experiences furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local customs and speech, which shows so well in his writing. With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a humorist. But it was not until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and finally, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that the world recognized him as one of the greatest writers America would ever have.

Tom Sawyer- Tom is a friend of Huckleberry Finn. Tom has an extraordinary imagination. Huckleberry Finn- Huck is the main character of the story. His mother is dead and father is a drunk and abuses him. ·Jim- Jim is the slave of Miss Watson. He is very superstitious and believes in witches. ·The King- The King is a bum that, after hearing the other bum say that he


Later on Tom comes to the house and covers for Huck by saying that he was Sid Sawyer and they wanted to surprise them. As time passes, Tom and Huck make plan to set Jim free. Huck figures out a simple plan to help their friend. But Tom, with his extraordinary imagination, wasn’t satisfied one bit. His devised a plan that was more dangerous and consisted of many unnecessary elements. Huck went along with it anyway to make Tom happy. The night that they act on the plan, Tom was shot in the leg and they were all chased by men with guns in the dark. They headed for the boat. They all got on and decided that they better get some help for Tom. Huck stopped at the shore a little ways down the river and found a doctor.

This book was written in a time of racial discrimination and slavery. Because of that fact, I think that the author, Mark Twain, was against racism, I can imagine that the material was very risky to right. It was a very controversial subject. I don’t know if Mark Twain was an abolitionist, but the ideas in the book might suggest it. He could have just been writing an “adventure” which is also suggested by the title of the book. This message of anti-slavery is very important, because there should not have been any slavery or racial discrimination. It shows the stupidity of the human race and what we should be ashamed of. There is still racial injustice in our modern society today. So, what does that tell you about our race and our society?

Huckleberry Finn is a child around the age of 14. He lives along the Mississippi River with Miss Watson. She is his guardian, because his mother is dead and his father is a drunk. His father abuses him. When Huck’s father comes to town and hears that his son is going to inherit six thousand dollars, he wants custody of Huck. Every once

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