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Huckleberry Finn
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Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, and savior of Jim, the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Shunning civilization and respectability, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a raft journey down the Mississippi River. As Huck learns about love, responsibility, and how to make moral choices, the trip becomes a metaphoric voyage through his own soul.
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Once more, for the sake of a better understanding, bear in mind that Twain's major novel "Huckleberry Finn" draws upon his childhood experiences in Hannibal. The story is set in the time of slavery, before the Civil War, when blacks were considered inferior to whites. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain arguably attacks racism and the institution of slavery in Hannibal, though not in a direct way but through the use of satire. By making the slave Jim one of the main characters Twain showed his contemporary audience slaves to be just as human as they were. In this character, he wanted to show his frank affection and admiration for black Americans, which began when he was still a boy on the threshold of adolescence in Hannibal. In his childhood, he witnessed blacks being lynched.
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The relationship between black and white in Huckleberry Finn has occupied literary critics as much as the question of the relationship of the races has occupied society at large. Two sources have furnished much of the best criticism on this issue: the Mark Twain Journal (issues in 1984 and 1988) and Satire or Evasion?: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn (eds. James S. Leonard et al., Durham: Duke University Press, 1992). Indeed, three of the seven essays in the section come from these two places.
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The Huckleberry Finn character is first introduced in Tom Sawyer, where he plays a secondary role but is established as a homeless orphan with a reputation as a troublemaker. The story about Tom Sawyer lacks the weighty themes of its sequel, but provides a highly enjoyable account of the imagination and abandon that characterize boyhood. Although Huckleberry Finn can be enjoyed without any prior familiarity with Tom Sawyer, the earlier book introduces Huck's relationship with Tom and explains his attainment of a six thousand-dollar estate.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered an American classic by many. The elements of humor, loyalty, friendship, and prejudice are all present throughout the chapters of this novel. Mark Twain takes readers on a raft ride down the Mississippi with Huck and Jim, an escaped slave. Along the way they run into danger, as well as some interesting and funny characters.
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Huckleberry stayed at the home to the Society's President while his medical needs were seen to. He remained isolated from the five resident ferrets during this period, having a small room to himself for safety, as Rasputin, the only male ferret in the home, had demonstrated a very powerful protective streak for his four girls and tended to attack other ferrets mercilessly. At the end of his stay, Huckleberry somehow managed to escape into the apartment at large while no one was home. Upon the return home, a somewhat panicked search for either a furry body or cowering ferret took place. After an hour's fruitless search, an unfamiliar hindquarter was noticed in the ferrets' primary nest -- Huckleberry, undisturbed and peacefully sleeping.
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