Reflection of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

That horrible moment when my computer deletes everything that I wrote, and now I must retype it.


Oh Huckleberry Finn. The title of this book is familiar to me, but I had heard horrible rumors about actually reading it. All that I knew (which was very little) came from the movie Easy A. Olive Pendergast says how all books that she reads in literature some how connect to the life of a high school student- except for  Huck Finn because she didn't know anyone who ran off with "a hulking black guy". By the end of the novel, I finally realized why Huck Finn is such a recognizable book in American Literature. 


The characters of Huck and Jim are truly fascinating- and lovable- throughout the entire novel. I became engulfed with their compassion and caring nature for each other. At the beginning, I simply thought it was just another racist book (with Huck constantly calling Jim in the n-word). However, Mark Twain cleverly uses the dialect to portray is negative views of slavery and racism. He also uses satire to portray how much he despises alcoholism. Something bad always happens whenever alcohol is involved during this story-the most memorable being when the "King" sells Jim back into slavery in order to buy alcohol.