A review by trin
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

5.0

This is a book that my dad read to me when I was little, that I slogged through in high school, and that I rediscovered my passion for in college. Twain is so clever—take the section about the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords, a saga that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Cain and Abel, and part screwball comedy (with a shocking tragic end)—but there's also real depth and meaning behind Huck's journey—the physical, and the emotional one. This is really the story of a boy finding his moral center in a time of corrupted ethics. I think about the scene where Huck decides he's willing to go to Hell if that's the price for rescuing Jim, his friend, and I know why this is a classic.