Aastha’s Reviews > The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn > Status Update

At this point, Tom seems like a young Don Quixote -_-

You know what, I think this book isn’t as engaging as Tom Sawyer but it is just as insightful (if you’re perceptive enough).
There are sub-themes (ideas, radical ones too) playing beneath the many layers of the main plot. But they’re never spelt out. If you see them, you see them. If you don’t, it’s just a story.

[Referring to: Racism and (subtle) questioning of it in 1800s America]

- the accented writing style is good, but not for me
- Huck Finn is intelligent, in a practical-sort of way
- Huck’s father is a racist drunkard
- the extent Huck will go to feel the thrill of adventure, the freedom of the nomadic life away from civility and social norms
- Huck thinks very differently. His logic is a very different kind of logic than is known to me and most

Very Quixotic vibes

Ahh, in typical Tom Sawyer fashion, this book starts out extreme! Outrageously extreme to a point it is infuriating! These kids are not just a troublesome lot, they’re wicked. Just started this book, and the level and mischief in this book definitely seems way more intolerable and inexcusable than Tom Sawyer’s Adventures.