The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Reviewed by Joshua

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain picks up where the prequel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, leaves off.  In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we follow the life of Huck after he was adopted by the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson.  As usual Huck isn’t that thrilled about his new life of cleanliness, manners, church, and school.  However, Tom Sawyer asks him to stick it through.  All is well until Huck’s drunken father kidnaps and holds him in a cabin across the river from St. Petersburg.  Huck successfully escapes from the cabin, and thus begins his adventures along with Miss Watson’s runaway slave, Jim.  They run into many several problems, which you would have to read to find out about. 

Many people, including myself, could relate to the characters from the story.  Take Huck for example. Sometimes we feel that we are being forced to conform to a society that we disdain.  I, for one, feel the same way as him.  Huck wanted to be able to be free and away from society. That’s why I really like this book.  I could easily understand where Huck is coming from when he says that he decides to run away from society, the corrupt and racist society that once prodigiously existed back then.  If I could change something about the book, it would probably be the kinds of “ugly” words used.  Throughout the whole book, the word “nigger” is strongly used.  It’s because of that reason that this extraordinary book was strongly criticized.  I would definitely recommend this book for others to read.  I would recommend this book to people who would have already read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and to people who would like to learn about Mark Twain’s style of writing.