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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 - This book was a slog for me, I ended up listening to the audiobook version narrated by Elijah Wood in order to finish it, but overall I really struggled to follow the dialect sometimes. I’m glad I read it though as I wanted an idea of the story for when reading the book James (re-telling from the POV of Jim)
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Well I've a mind to set this whole review down in the style of the book, seeing as you do find yourself immersed in it considerable. And it puts me in mind of my own grandma powerful easy, seeing she was herself born in the south in 1916, and I tell you, books from that time is just about the nearest I ever come to hearing her voice again. Now my grandmother warn't rough, she carried herself fine and proper-like, and this book is written such that sounds mighty uneducated, but they had patterns of speech and little sayings sure I ain't heard since I was a kid scamping at my grandma's hem.
Okay anyway
Mark Twain, the humorist and satirist, made this book much more humorous and satirical compared to its predecessor Tom Sawyer. And it's progressive for its time, which is to say the protagonists are a runaway slave and a scoundrelous son of the town drunk, but the plot relies constantly on the histrionics and naivety of every woman in the book, and the main character struggles with what he perceives as the immoral decision to free a slave showing that he understood his innate humanity after spending time with him, but the book is peppered with flashes of searing racism, overt and aggressive from some but still present and internalized in all the others.
I left Tom Sawyer wondering why it's considered a staple in American literature history, and I assumed this would be the same; this book, while in turns silly and slapstick, earns its place in that canon and illuminates class, religion, linguistics, and culture in the American South as it was at this time and as it would evolve.
Okay anyway
Mark Twain, the humorist and satirist, made this book much more humorous and satirical compared to its predecessor Tom Sawyer. And it's progressive for its time, which is to say the protagonists are a runaway slave and a scoundrelous son of the town drunk, but the plot relies constantly on the histrionics and naivety of every woman in the book, and the main character struggles with what he perceives as the immoral decision to free a slave showing that he understood his innate humanity after spending time with him, but the book is peppered with flashes of searing racism, overt and aggressive from some but still present and internalized in all the others.
I left Tom Sawyer wondering why it's considered a staple in American literature history, and I assumed this would be the same; this book, while in turns silly and slapstick, earns its place in that canon and illuminates class, religion, linguistics, and culture in the American South as it was at this time and as it would evolve.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated