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This is that "Great American Novel" that is even relevant today.
Reviewed in India on 14 July 2020
Mark Twain like many great American authors had a distinguished career in the literary industry. This novel comes at the time when the great civil war that ripped the United States into two had come to a close. It was the time when all the emancipated slaves from the south started migrating towards the north and the States started a westward expansion. This story is a realization of present problems and prejudices stilling plaguing in the society.At the start, Twain gives us a joke that the one who tries to find the plot will be killed. It’s an amazing start to the novel. This novel is a grand picture showing us a very broad cross-section of society and its prejudices. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, has now become one of my favorite novels. I read a random line by Ernest Hemingway which said - “This is where the American Literature starts, nothing was before and nothing is as significant since.” Which made me pick up this novel.When I read this novel, I realized that he wasn’t kidding at all. Twain is a genius in putting the tropes of childhood, innocence, growing up, society, and slavery in a single book and binding it through the river. This book is where that little Huckleberry Finn who was the sidekick of Tom Sawyer from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer gets the lead role in the story. Huck’s journey from being naïve to growing up emotionally with the runaway slave Jim, serene beauty of the Mississippi, and the cruel pre-civil war American south keep us locked into the book.This is one of those Great American Novels, the real transcendentalist thought that Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman believed in. But the effort of the reader to find the American character in Huck in the context of a tragedy is heartbreaking for everyone. This book is in every way comparable to Don Quixote, and you will even enjoy reading that too. The two most interesting things in this novel are the usage of first-person perspective contrary to its prequel, which makes it way more immersive and dramatic, and the usage of the ‘n’ word. We again here need to understand that Twain is writing for an audience at his time in the local dialect when the word was commonly used. The ending somewhat makes everyone surprise. I liked the way Twain played the game towards the end but not many may like it. Twain again showed that Tom is always the boss in his friends. This book makes you get bored, fell in love with the characters, laugh with them for Twain’s amazing literary humor, get emotionally connected with them, cry alongside them, and in the end close the book exclaiming how a book can be so beautiful.The book contains every conflict and debate in today’s world. This is contemporary, though not by times but by the societal prejudices. This can be in contention for what America might call a national epic even though it ain’t a poem. This book isn’t a onetime read at all. Do give it a read. You won’t be disappointed. From one angle, it’s a tale of an adventure to find freedom, for Huck it is freedom from civilization, and for Jim, freedom from slavery, it is a picture of a world of prejudices; it is a drama of moral conflict. A world which is filled with smugness, illiteracy, boredom, anarchy, prejudices, bravery, cowardice, and brutality. I would like to conclude by saying that this is a book which contains humor about a completely opposite world.
Reviewed in India on 14 July 2020
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At the start, Twain gives us a joke that the one who tries to find the plot will be killed. It’s an amazing start to the novel. This novel is a grand picture showing us a very broad cross-section of society and its prejudices. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, has now become one of my favorite novels. I read a random line by Ernest Hemingway which said - “This is where the American Literature starts, nothing was before and nothing is as significant since.” Which made me pick up this novel.
When I read this novel, I realized that he wasn’t kidding at all. Twain is a genius in putting the tropes of childhood, innocence, growing up, society, and slavery in a single book and binding it through the river. This book is where that little Huckleberry Finn who was the sidekick of Tom Sawyer from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer gets the lead role in the story. Huck’s journey from being naïve to growing up emotionally with the runaway slave Jim, serene beauty of the Mississippi, and the cruel pre-civil war American south keep us locked into the book.
This is one of those Great American Novels, the real transcendentalist thought that Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman believed in. But the effort of the reader to find the American character in Huck in the context of a tragedy is heartbreaking for everyone. This book is in every way comparable to Don Quixote, and you will even enjoy reading that too. The two most interesting things in this novel are the usage of first-person perspective contrary to its prequel, which makes it way more immersive and dramatic, and the usage of the ‘n’ word. We again here need to understand that Twain is writing for an audience at his time in the local dialect when the word was commonly used. The ending somewhat makes everyone surprise. I liked the way Twain played the game towards the end but not many may like it. Twain again showed that Tom is always the boss in his friends. This book makes you get bored, fell in love with the characters, laugh with them for Twain’s amazing literary humor, get emotionally connected with them, cry alongside them, and in the end close the book exclaiming how a book can be so beautiful.
The book contains every conflict and debate in today’s world. This is contemporary, though not by times but by the societal prejudices. This can be in contention for what America might call a national epic even though it ain’t a poem. This book isn’t a onetime read at all. Do give it a read. You won’t be disappointed. From one angle, it’s a tale of an adventure to find freedom, for Huck it is freedom from civilization, and for Jim, freedom from slavery, it is a picture of a world of prejudices; it is a drama of moral conflict. A world which is filled with smugness, illiteracy, boredom, anarchy, prejudices, bravery, cowardice, and brutality. I would like to conclude by saying that this is a book which contains humor about a completely opposite world.
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This is that "Great American Novel" that is even relevant today.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 14 July 2020
Mark Twain like many great American authors had a distinguished career in the literary industry. This novel comes at the time when the great civil war that ripped the United States into two had come to a close. It was the time when all the emancipated slaves from the south started migrating towards the north and the States started a westward expansion. This story is a realization of present problems and prejudices stilling plaguing in the society.Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 14 July 2020
At the start, Twain gives us a joke that the one who tries to find the plot will be killed. It’s an amazing start to the novel. This novel is a grand picture showing us a very broad cross-section of society and its prejudices. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, has now become one of my favorite novels. I read a random line by Ernest Hemingway which said - “This is where the American Literature starts, nothing was before and nothing is as significant since.” Which made me pick up this novel.
When I read this novel, I realized that he wasn’t kidding at all. Twain is a genius in putting the tropes of childhood, innocence, growing up, society, and slavery in a single book and binding it through the river. This book is where that little Huckleberry Finn who was the sidekick of Tom Sawyer from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer gets the lead role in the story. Huck’s journey from being naïve to growing up emotionally with the runaway slave Jim, serene beauty of the Mississippi, and the cruel pre-civil war American south keep us locked into the book.
This is one of those Great American Novels, the real transcendentalist thought that Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman believed in. But the effort of the reader to find the American character in Huck in the context of a tragedy is heartbreaking for everyone. This book is in every way comparable to Don Quixote, and you will even enjoy reading that too. The two most interesting things in this novel are the usage of first-person perspective contrary to its prequel, which makes it way more immersive and dramatic, and the usage of the ‘n’ word. We again here need to understand that Twain is writing for an audience at his time in the local dialect when the word was commonly used. The ending somewhat makes everyone surprise. I liked the way Twain played the game towards the end but not many may like it. Twain again showed that Tom is always the boss in his friends. This book makes you get bored, fell in love with the characters, laugh with them for Twain’s amazing literary humor, get emotionally connected with them, cry alongside them, and in the end close the book exclaiming how a book can be so beautiful.
The book contains every conflict and debate in today’s world. This is contemporary, though not by times but by the societal prejudices. This can be in contention for what America might call a national epic even though it ain’t a poem. This book isn’t a onetime read at all. Do give it a read. You won’t be disappointed. From one angle, it’s a tale of an adventure to find freedom, for Huck it is freedom from civilization, and for Jim, freedom from slavery, it is a picture of a world of prejudices; it is a drama of moral conflict. A world which is filled with smugness, illiteracy, boredom, anarchy, prejudices, bravery, cowardice, and brutality. I would like to conclude by saying that this is a book which contains humor about a completely opposite world.
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