Friday, June 18, 2010
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
I will have to say that this book had adventure and was very good at times, but the rest of it was really boring. I liked Huck & Jim the most out of all the characters, they made the book interesting, without them it wouldn't give me anything to read. Tom had the weirdest thing to him??? I don't know but he wanted to make everything so hard for Huck Finn when he was trying to get Jim free. It just made me mad reading all the stuff he wanted to do just because "Some other prisoners has done it." just shows to me he was a follower & not a leader.
By the mid-part of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" i believed that Huck had Jim & his trip to freedom all planed out until the "king" sold Jim for $40... that was crazy!! I had no idea of how they were going to get out of that situation. But in the end it seemed like luck was on all of their sides, i guess...
This book had very interesting points at times... but i really didn't enjoy reading it at all. All it was about was an adventure of a "dead boy" & "run away slave". I guess it had meaning in some parts, Like how the slaves were treated; they really had no rights or any say of how they wanted their lives.
The only part that i liked, was funny & made me think was when Jim & Huck were laying under the stars and they were trying to figure out how the stars got there... well when Jim said, "the moon could 'a' laid them" that gave me some thinking ;) ya know? Like how did they get there... I don't know i guess i should just google it or something. Hmmm...?
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Even though you state you 'really didn't enjoy reading it [the book] at all' it sounds like you did. I know you know it is more than just an adventure story, so I will not go into that. But what I do want you to think about is fantasy vs. reality.
ReplyDeleteTom did make things much more difficult for everyone involved, but why? How does he differ from Jim and Huck? Why would he make a difficult and serious situation even more so? Is it because of imagination? How important is imagination in this novel and what characters use imagination? How can this differ from today? I have so many more questions for you, which makes me excited as the teacher because you have some really good ideas from a book you 'really didn't enjoy reading.'
Rethink this novel from an argument of reality vs. imagination. I think you could take it further into discussion.