Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley—a sequel to Tom Sawyer—the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. More than a century after its publication, the critical debate over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage is still fresh, and it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor.
@declineofwesternsiv Seems like soon as a fella comes into a bit o’ money, everyone comes out of the woodworks after’n it.
These ladies wants to sivilize me? More like reverse gold-dig my fame and fortune. @FencinTom: Get me outta here!
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Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people." Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.
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物語のクライマックスで、彼はある選択を迫られます。友人である黒人奴隷の逃亡を助けるのか、それとも、法や社会に従って彼の所有者に突き出すのか、という。
ハックはこの問いをめぐり、真剣に悩むのです。
そして、最後に選択をする。
この選択の瞬間にこそ、彼は自らに染み付いている道徳、自らを縛り付けている鎖を断ち切って、初めて「自由」を獲得した、私にはそう思えます。
この時の高揚感といったら!
一度は読む価値のある本だと思います。
なお、方言が用いられているために、読むのにかなり苦労したことを付記しておきます。
前作『トム・ソーヤーの冒険』でトムの相棒として物語を盛り上げたハックルベリー・フィン少年が主人公。あいかわらずのならず者の親父から脱出するハックの小粋な作戦がいい。悪ガキながらも頭の回転の速い少年がミシシッピ横断を夢みるあたりは、さすが少年冒険小説の傑作だ。ハックの親友、我らがトム・ソーヤー少年も再登場するのでお楽しみに!また黒人奴隷の問題もあ!!、同じ少年でありながら差別される側のジムにハックが対等に接するのもいい。したたかだけど人情派、トムと同じく憎めないキャラクター、ハックが繰り広げる冒険に手に汗握って読んでしまう。
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