Raghad ElBashir’s Reviews > The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn > Status Update

the ridiculous scenes are definitely satirical. Tom Sawyer is this representation of the faults of Romanticism and how its ideals are ridiculous in reality. Huck is presented as the realist then. He is determined on freeing Jim, not making their escape into something adventurous or dangerous.

Huck’s moment where he proclaims he accepts going to hell in order to help Jim escape slavery is profound. Here is a boy who has never really thought of religion at all up until this point. And in the face of fear of going to hell, he still decides to go with what he feels is right; helping Jim, his friend who has always done right by him. It’s strange to contend that a child can determine right more than society

so many bizarre events line the grangerford and shepherson feud, this duke and king frauds, Wilke’s funeral and the scam. so much happening. I do appreciate the humanization of jim in regards to his worries about his family. It seems as though huck is constantly at odds with his racist conditioning and with his view of Jim as a man with human emotions and sufferings

love jim. Super interesting to see huck conflicted on his morality in regards to slavery.

pap is evil and greedy. Love Widow Douglas so far. Huck is lowkey super intuitive and he thinks a lot about what others tell him

it’s okay so far. Huck is uneducated and lower class and Twain makes it a distinct point in his speech and dialect. Jim’s portrayal is extremely strange, for sure. Huck seems to despise the rigidity of routine and rules around him and wants to go somewhere else and escape the structure of society with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson