I read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain. He made this work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Huckleberry Finn, who is a main characterof this novel, is a young boy. He tryed to cross a river with Jim. Jim was escaping slave. Finn and Jim went to liverty.
This novel have some themes. They are family, race, encounter with various people and so on. This novel made me think about a lot of things.
(Below is an excursion about story on July 7th)
Huckleberry Finn's father is bad man. He is drunk. Huck's mother was dead. Before she was dead, she left money for her son, Huckleberry Finn, not for her hasband. His father want to get this Huckleberry Finn's property. Huck's father try to kill him under the influence of liquor. Huck pretends to be dead himself. After that, he trys to escape from his father.
On the other hand, Jim, who is slave but Huck's friend, escapes from his boss. His boss, is Huck's foster mother, is not bad person. She didn't discriminate Jim so much. But the affairs of her house become in very poor shape. So she is not able to continue to make Jim be in bonds. If she parts with Jim, he is parted his family. At last, he decides to escape.
Huck and Jim meets. First Huck confuses. In this society, escaping slave should be punished. It is unbelievable thing. He suffers for it. However he decides to help Jim. (254 words)
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Reference
Book:
Twain, M (2000). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Oxford, the U.K.: Oxford University Press.
What is a story of this novel?
返信削除Will try to read this novel sometime:)
Kate
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返信削除I wrote about a story as excurse. If you don't care, please read it.