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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
A good and easy read. Not too deep, but a good adventure and peek into that period.
I didn't love this book.
I loved the somewhat silly and juvenile adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn just wasn't my style.
I don't even really know what to say here
sorry
I loved the somewhat silly and juvenile adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn just wasn't my style.
I don't even really know what to say here
sorry
I suppose kids may not get the problems with the plot but I found a couple of things that just don't wash. For one thing why keep going down the Mississippi when you figured out you miss Ciaro in the fog. I know the Mississippi river represents freedom but still a slave going further into the south is crazy. Second all that stuff Huck and Tom did to free Jim is crazy too. If he was captured and they got him out to help with the stone, he would have ran away. I know he had a good heart and all but I just don't see any slave going back into a prison enviroment just to humor a couple to kids.
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
This one starts off pretty well. Huck Finn as narrator can be difficult to follow, but there are times that are straight up laugh out loud funny. The portrayal of black people (as comically ignorant) is problematic for modern readers, but presumably honest for the POV considering the period and location? There are a lot of slapstick scenes and white people are certainly also shown as bumbling morons. However, the main flaw with this story is the ending, when Tom Sawyer shows up. That kid is absolutely intolerable in this book. I get that it's all a big joke, but the repetitive annoyingness really grated on me.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Love, love, love this book. Until the part where Tom arrives and acts like a jerk for a few dozen pages. Before he shows up it's a perfect adventure. After he arrives, it's like a good independent movie ruined by a cameo of some strutting Hollywood A-lister. But forget that, and to the heart of why I call it "perfect."
A young person who loves trouble and has a heart of gold. What could be better? Wild things happen in every chapter, and the fear of losing his friend Jim to slavery make the story thick with tension.
During the darkest moments Huck reveals himself to be moral to the core, in a tragic, immoral society that lets people buy and sell other people. He realizes he will stand against that society in a boyish soliloquy that brings tears to my eyes whenever I read it:
"And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog. "
A young person who loves trouble and has a heart of gold. What could be better? Wild things happen in every chapter, and the fear of losing his friend Jim to slavery make the story thick with tension.
During the darkest moments Huck reveals himself to be moral to the core, in a tragic, immoral society that lets people buy and sell other people. He realizes he will stand against that society in a boyish soliloquy that brings tears to my eyes whenever I read it:
"And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog. "
adventurous
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It is easy to understand why this is an American classic.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
slow-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
Well this took an awkwardly long time😅😅, but I finally get what teenage girls could feel when they read Jane Austen:33