Huck Finn

While I found Huck Finn a little difficult to read, (at first) I eventually started getting into the story. I'll be honest. The language and introduction of Tom threw me for a little (read: a lot), so I didn't completely understand the story at first. But thanks to schmoop (which I read AFTER the book :) ), I finally realized that Huck was white. Palm, meet face. But really. The "suthurn" language was incredibly confusing. When Jim entered the story with his mumbly jumbly words, I literally wanted to kill myself. (I'm a HUGE grammar freak, so any misplaced modifiers or misspelled words coughamandacough mess with my mind.) Apart from the grammar and spelling and accent--which I hated. Did I already mention that already?-- it wasn't a bad book.

I enjoyed the silly adventures Huck got himself into (dressing like a girl? Really?) and Twain's rampant use of satire and irony. One of the BEST moments (in my book) of the book (<haha) was when Huck met up with Aunt Sally. And she asked if anyone was hurt. And 'Tom'--who was really Huck-- said that a black man was killed. And she replied that she was happy no one got hurt. Hilarious (satirically), yet sad (in terms of the sad state of humanity and morals at that time).

Tom was pretty annoying, too. I kind of wanted to smack him when he wouldn't free Jim quickly. Like. What. He wanted Jim to do so many ridiculous things that he forgot about the whole point of his being there (TO FREE JIM.) Ugh.

Overall, I didn't think it was that bad of the book. I had a much different picture of what the book was going to be about than what it actually was. I really didn't expect it to be literally The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. So I was pleasantly surprised when I read it. Huck's unfortunate luck that lands him in every imaginable trouble and Jim's undeniably sweet nature won me over. I'll admit, it's not a book that I would reach for again to read for pleasure, but I don't regret reading it the first time (that is, if I had had a choice in the matter, I would still read it)


Things and stuff and words.
Diction.
Syntax.

Carol out.