The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin is really interesting. I just don’t enjoy how much details Mr. Twain puts in to prolong the story, which is bad on my part because this makes me feel like one of those book burners in Fahrenheit 451. In addition to that I find Jim very hard to understand because of the way he speaks. I find this book interesting because it’s very adventurous and in some parts very emotional. In my class, Aviation and the American Character we are using American traits like, rugged individualist to describe certain individuals throughout American history. Well I think the perfect trait for Huck is a “Do-gooder”. I think that because throughout Huck’s adventures he always trying to do what he thinks is right. “Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn’t seem right that there warn’t nobody to make some about her now she was gone; so I tried to sweat out a verse or two myself. (107)” However sometimes Huck thinks his morals are good but according to today’s general standards they are not. “I begun to get it through my head that he was most free—and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn’t get that out of my conscience, no how nor now way. (92)”
I really like the character Jim, except he is a little too superstitious for my liking. The part I really like about him is that he has a determined goal in life and he will work hard for it. “He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free state he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned ona farm close to where Miss Watson lived; (92)” In addition he is really thankful of the opportunities he’s been given.
Lastly, I find Huck’s lies really funny. I find it amusing how he lies to the people he sees through his journey and keeps on forgetting what his lies were. I especially like the parts when Huck forgot his name.
No comments:
Post a Comment