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Revisiting Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a reading assignment for freshman English, and I even wrote a paper on it, I think, but I don't remember a word. So when I saw the it on the library audio-book shelf, I picked it out for a recent long car trip.
Ernest Hemingway supposedly said that all American literature descends from Huckleberry Finn. And I also read that right after the Civil War, Mark Twain had set out to write about slavery, and this was his polemic, cleverly disguised as an adventure tale.
I have fallen in love with the book -- the descriptions, the use of dialogue (altho certainly not PC for the ol' aunt Jemina talk for ol' Jim).
A great rediscovery.
Ernest Hemingway supposedly said that all American literature descends from Huckleberry Finn. And I also read that right after the Civil War, Mark Twain had set out to write about slavery, and this was his polemic, cleverly disguised as an adventure tale.
I have fallen in love with the book -- the descriptions, the use of dialogue (altho certainly not PC for the ol' aunt Jemina talk for ol' Jim).
A great rediscovery.
