The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Pros: Fun, insightful, timeless
Cons: Needs to be read to be enjoyed

Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1885) NOTICE: 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 ...

Pros: everything! a classic
Cons: Jim's dialect will slow you down

--NOTICE—Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banned; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR Per G.G., CHIEF OF ...

Pros: Excellent social commentary, poses excellent questions, quite entertaining
Cons: Convoluted and unrealistic ending, challenging dialect, questionable actions, irreverent attitudes

ROMANTICISM, RACISM, OR DANGEROUS REALITY? Several weeks ago, I enrolled in several literature courses at university. Despite my attendance at this noble institution for two years, I had hitherto been quite unimpressed with the various classes ...

Pros: Interesting set of snapshots of a society.
Cons: Negative, thin characterizations.

This novel is a combination of travelogue and social commentary on the culture of the southern United States as viewed through the eyes of an itinerant teenager. Huckleberry Finn is the fifteen year old son of the town drunk, in a small town in ...

Pros: Insightful novel that can be read on various levels
Cons: Some will have difficulty getting past the language

In an 1887 letter to W. D. Howells, Mark Twain wrote “High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.” In one sense this is quite true of his immortal The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; however, this classic...

Pros: An American classic for all time.
Cons: None.

We all know the plot, so there's no sense in rehashing it; "Huckleberry Finn" is one book that has probably been reviewed to death. But this book has generated a great deal of heat and very little light lately; it's been banned in some school districts ...

Pros: A wonderful allegory of slave-era America set amidst fun adventures.
Cons: Has the easily offended in arms against it.

Yes, it's true. Poor Huck Finn has been tossed out of more schools than nearly any other book in print, a victim of the touchy-feely political correctness movement. I know what you're thinking "Was it sex?" Sorry to disappoint you, but no....

Pros: Funny and real characters. Twain uses a child to discuss the ills of society.
Cons: One of society's ills is its short-sightedness.

"All modern literature stems from this one book. There was nothing before, there has been nothing as good since." I wish I could have been the one to coin that description of Twain's best known work. I guess coming from Ernest Hemingway it...

Pros: Funny and interesting
Cons: Somewhat racist

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great American classic story. I read this book when I was in high school and again recently (more than ten years later). Both times I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but each time on a different level.

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Pros: One of the great classics with one of the grandest themes
Cons: None, no matter what anyone says!

I first read "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" when I was about nine years old. I didn't dislike it, but I had the sense that there was something in it that I wasn't quite getting, so I put it aside and returned to it about six years later,...

Pros: you'll look literate to people who don't know any better
Cons: If you like the book, you have been assimilated by the Literary Borg

I will start off with good things to say about Twain's literature: 1) "Tom Sawyer" is a good novel 2) Twain has excellent flow and attention to detail 3) Twain did well with the historical and regional dialect and 4) Twain had a good bent for humor. ...

Pros: Evocative description, funny, earthy yet profound, knife-sharp observations, satire, adventure
Cons: Reading "Tom Sawyer" a slight prerequisite

Unlike a lot of youngsters, I was not forced to read "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in school by some classroom tyrant; I discovered it of my own free will, and was glad I did. Even granted that you have to read the high-spirited "Adventures of...

Pros: Book
Cons: Movie

Huckleberry Finn

In both the book and the newer movie of The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's tale of the escape of a young boy
and a slave in search of freedom unfolds. Movies have been made
with the desire to...

Pros: funny, historic (but fiction)
Cons: language and race issues concern many

Whether you agree with the ideas present in this book or not, the issues addressed are vital pieces of American history involving slavery and racism and its inherence in the raising of children. Many have spoken on the issue of this book since its ...

Pros: Great Satire, great story
Cons: a little preachy, and outdated

In Mark Twain’s satirical novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain debunks many of society’s silly practices. Twain attacks the “sophisticated” people of the south with great fervor. Twain did not care much for the southern wealthy, and he uses...