Monday, April 14, 2014

My opinion on Huckleberry Finn


I felt it was a little peculiar that the main character, Huck, mentioned the author and the last book that the author wrote. I think Mark Twain did that for more publicity or he wanted to address his last book so people would go back and read “The Adventures of Tom sawyer”. Anyways, I think the book started pretty quick, usually books have some background involved but this book jumped right in to Tom and Huck finding treasure. That was a pretty big event, usually books don’t have big events that early in the book. This book has horrible grammar and spelling, it gives me a headache trying to read it. The dialect was historically accurate to the time period and from what I know the people of the 1800s did speak like that but I don’t want to read a story that has horrible grammar and spelling like that, I think my IQ dropped a couple points. This first chapter was pretty good at establishing the plot of the story, and it also mentioned the slaves so the book was good at describing how times were back then. If I was Huck, I’d keep all the money, that sounds selfish, but I would. If I was the age of Huck, I probably couldn’t join a gang that kills people, that’s a little harsh. Anyways, this book so far is overall an interesting book.

1 comment:

  1. First off, the background for the story is Huck and Tom finding the treasure, that didn't happen at the beginning of this book it happened in the last book. The dialect isn't that bad and he gave his money away to keep it from his father, who could have taken it without a thought. Also the gang they make is all make believe and they don't actually kill people.

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