huck Finn .. davis b

I really like this book because it is fun to read and easy to relate to my own childhood memories because I always remembered playing cops and robbers, running around similar to the main characters of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. I loved to play pranks on my older brother along with my twin brother. This book is written in a boys' perspective, therefore I have found it very easy to read as well as understand.

This book is, as you said in class, a product of its time. During the 1830s black people made up a huge percentage of the South, however were insulted, enslaved and treated horribly. It may come off as being prejudice, however it is truly how they spoke during this era. The use of the N word is a constant reminder of how derogatory this book is. But it is also simply how the kids and all white people were taught to speak. I do believe it should be taught because it is how our history truly played out. It was disgusting and awful, but today we need to learn from what the people of our past. The book, Huck Finn, Samuel Clemmings set back 50 years from when he was writing it, could have also been very important because in the 1880s was when racism was at a climatic point. It shows how little thing shad truly progressed, however by this time the civil war was already over and racism was already being solved. Who knows why he put these books in this time period, but it was evident it was to show some facts of our history as a well as reach out to many readers and remind them of their childhood.

I am confused of why he would stop on page 72. I understand what went on but I think it was probably just because he needed time to think of something super dramatic that he could through in there.

A key factor in this novel if how huck and jim are companions it shows how innocence has brough them together. This is fun, and the tricks are also funny as wellas meant in a harmless manner. The fact that Huck aplogizes really shows how they will not betray eachother and how honesty is a pounding theme. I really like this book.