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A review by joeloss
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
4.0
Although it is thematically richer than Tom Sawyer, it is nowhere near as amusing. I wouldn’t describe it as a slog exactly but I wouldn’t consider it a page turner, either.
There’s a lot of controversy surrounding Huck Finn for its use of the N word but, obviously, a pre-civil war set in the American south prominently featuring a runaway slave would be unrealistic and inauthentic without it. I find I haven’t got a whole lot to say about it. It is interesting to watch Huck struggle with the morality of aiding Jim’s escape as he considers, at least intellectually, Jim to be more akin to stolen property than a person deserving of the same rights as himself. The power dynamics of race dictate that Huck, a “white trash” child with little in the way of formal education, is the “shot-caller” in the party of two; when two white, male, adult scam artists join the voyage Huck is forced to empathise with Jim more deeply as he is demoted to a pawn in their chess game of scamming a family out of their inheritance.
There’s a lot of controversy surrounding Huck Finn for its use of the N word but, obviously, a pre-civil war set in the American south prominently featuring a runaway slave would be unrealistic and inauthentic without it. I find I haven’t got a whole lot to say about it. It is interesting to watch Huck struggle with the morality of aiding Jim’s escape as he considers, at least intellectually, Jim to be more akin to stolen property than a person deserving of the same rights as himself. The power dynamics of race dictate that Huck, a “white trash” child with little in the way of formal education, is the “shot-caller” in the party of two; when two white, male, adult scam artists join the voyage Huck is forced to empathise with Jim more deeply as he is demoted to a pawn in their chess game of scamming a family out of their inheritance.