I expect an unusual amount of adventure from my books if the
main character is a boy named Huckleberry, and this classic surely didn’t
disappoint. Huck Finn lived in the town
of St. Petersburg, Missouri, a frontier town where danger waits on its borders.
When Huck’s alcoholic father kidnaps him
from his new court-appointed guardian, it’s up to Huck and his friend Tom
Sawyer to make their escape. Once free
in the wild, the boys partner up with Jim, a runaway slave, and set off on a
mission to help him free his own family.
One fact that’s often overlooks in this classic adventure
story is the downright brutality of everyday life in the frontier South. The original book has been banned many times
for its use of the word “nigger”, and subsequent versions have been edited to
remove this phrase. As with most of Mr.
Twain’s other works, though, the author is not known for pulling any punches
with his writing. His stories and books
are often gritty, but they are always honest.
Huck Finn, one of the best examples of Mr. Twain’s writing, is certainly
no different.
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