Huckleberry Finn is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels ever written. It has been praised by many authors the works of whom are also considered classics. At the time of it being published it was groundbreaking as it told the story through local black and white dialect of the time. It also dealt with the issues of the morality of slavery, the troubles of poor white people, and the autobiographical details of a young boy journey of coming of age in a fairly drastic way for the time the book was written.
The book itself is quite enjoyable to read. It is however a struggle to get through it smoothly as the rambling way it is written and the heavy use of dialect makes rereading sentences a constant annoyance as some of the …show more content…
The overall theme of the book is the physical and metaphorical journey of Huckleberry Finn from a little mischievous boy into the beginning of manhood. This is accomplished by him being able to make the journey down the river alive and also his change in morality as he eventually sees the escaped slave Jim as an equal human being. It is an inspiring story about friendship between races and the difficulties that comes with getting past the color of someone’s skin and seeing deeper than that when you have almost preprogrammed prejudices. There are many conflicts in the book that the reader notices. Some of these are friendship and betrayal, the difference between freedom and slavery, and ultimately the conflict of the attitude you are expected to have to conform with the social norm of the time and the attitude you morally should have. Whether or not Mark Twain deliberately intended these morals or not is open to debate but they are there.
The book was and still obviously is controversial for the matter of fact usage of derogatory terms for African Americans. Huckleberry Finn is full of these terms and are used in an off hand way that while offensive they have to be taken into perspective and context regarding when the book was written. It appears to be a common way for poor white trash to refer to black people at the time. Generally the book is good, if not
The book itself is quite enjoyable to read. It is however a struggle to get through it smoothly as the rambling way it is written and the heavy use of dialect makes rereading sentences a constant annoyance as some of the …show more content…
The overall theme of the book is the physical and metaphorical journey of Huckleberry Finn from a little mischievous boy into the beginning of manhood. This is accomplished by him being able to make the journey down the river alive and also his change in morality as he eventually sees the escaped slave Jim as an equal human being. It is an inspiring story about friendship between races and the difficulties that comes with getting past the color of someone’s skin and seeing deeper than that when you have almost preprogrammed prejudices. There are many conflicts in the book that the reader notices. Some of these are friendship and betrayal, the difference between freedom and slavery, and ultimately the conflict of the attitude you are expected to have to conform with the social norm of the time and the attitude you morally should have. Whether or not Mark Twain deliberately intended these morals or not is open to debate but they are there.
The book was and still obviously is controversial for the matter of fact usage of derogatory terms for African Americans. Huckleberry Finn is full of these terms and are used in an off hand way that while offensive they have to be taken into perspective and context regarding when the book was written. It appears to be a common way for poor white trash to refer to black people at the time. Generally the book is good, if not