Wow, I can't believe this is my last blog and book discussion. It has been a long semester and hopefully a successful one. I am going to be rather busy this summer due to taking 14 hours in total this summer and having a summer job for the Brazos Valley Bombers. They are a baseball team locally here in the Brazos Valley that will have some summer games and family fun! I also hope that I will complete the full amount of hours this semester and this summer in order to apply for my aggie ring! I have been working so hard in school to get my ring that I will be crushed if I don't get to my goal.
Anyways, I wanted to write about Huckleberry Finn just because this book is so widely known in the United States and is pretty much a requirement to read although there is a lot of controversy about slavery and inappropriate name calling within the book. I believe that this book is pretty essential considering the fact that we have discussed that even in picture books there is the question of "civilizing in today's society." For example, we discussed that in children's literature, such as Dr. Seuss, the children question "soceity and authority" along with "Where the Wild Things Are." where Max pulls away from civilization into his own world.
Huck Finn's moral and lesson from the chapters is to listen to yourself, and consule your own inner gut feeling. It also emphasizes the the natural order of the world when Huck and Jim are traveling on the boat away from society. There are also motifs within the novel with the use of the river, which equals freedom, cleansing, new lifr, and re-birth.
The interesting thing about this novel is that Twain portrays the villians in this novel to be the figures of authority/parents (Huck's father), slavery and racism.
The main adventure of the novel consists about slave escaping to freedom. Not many people realize this though, and that Huck is helping a friend, Jim.
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3 entries, excellent variety, content and word length. See Vista for grade.
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