To me it’s the greatest novel I ever read, and I read it countless times starting when I was around 10 years old, I’m 53 now. Matter of fact it was my fathers copy from 1945 and I read it so much it eventually fell apart! There is so many great parts in that book it’s unreal, the Grangerford -Shepherdson feud, the King and the Duke which is hilarious, the Duke makes pretend he is deaf “Goo Goo”, or the nonesuch play they put on and they get tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail, Huck hiding out on Jackson Island and he hears the cannon from the steamboat coming, and the bread with the Mercury in it, there are so so so so many great parts in that book I never get tired of it. But one thing I do remember, hardcore clear as day, is that when I did first read it when I was a kid, it did the exact opposite of what these idiots are claiming: It made me compassionate towards blacks, it made racism absolutely unthinkable to me! It got me mad that such a thing even existed. Well gee whiz, how can that be with the evil “N” word all over the book?
***Huck hiding out on Jackson Island and he hears the cannon from the steamboat coming, and the bread with the Mercury in it, ***
Oh, WOW! I had forgotten that part! It’s only been fifty five years since I read it!
Agree.
However, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is number one in my “book.”
Another PC-incorrect book (Uncle Tom is a good guy) with PC-incorrect language.
PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.
Explanatory
IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County†dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
THE AUTHOR.
Huckleberry Finn
Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago