During the book you can notice that there are lots of ways of interpreting this book based on what you think, baout it and I had a very hard feeling a bout it.

 
Setting Level 2

How would the work be different if 
it were set in another time or place? 


The setting of time in the book is a very important thing because one of the most important factors is that in that times slaves were permitted. I am going to be serious...The book was a total waste of my time, really, Mark Twain totally dissapointed.
Anyways, the book may have been totally different because both tom and huck would manipulate Jim because they new that he was not free. It was even more easy to see when tom says that he knew Jim had been set free by Ms. Watson's will after she died. Even the duke and the dauphin part was totally weird and completely out of place. -_-

My Mark Twain "Faith in twain" can be represented at the following graph/


 
Among the many conflicts in the story, one of the most important is the conflict between huck and his father, they both literally hate each other and his father kidnaped huck from the widow and he was sent to an abandoned log cabin in the middle of the forest, there he is locked up all day and he is barely given to eat. 

Huck had some sort of conflict with the widow, he disliked some of the things that she would tell him to do like pray. 
 
The narrator of the story is the same first character, Huckleberry Finn he is explains all the story in his southern accent.
He is explains all the story in his point of view, even when he says that he wished his father was dead. At the beginning I was kind of suprised, but when I read what his dad would to to him I wouldn't blame him for thinking that.

He narrates his life and the adventure he goes throguh in first person and even though he can survive by himself in the woods he was just a kid and would go plain in the caves as if he and Tom Swayers gang where a gang of robbers.
He is a very positive and happy person, even with both parents not loving him he is still a good person.
 
HuckleBerry Finn: A kid who used to live in the forest in a very poor way and he was "adopted" by a widow, he was really hurt from his childhood because he doesn't even call his mother "mother", he calls her "the widow" . His father was an irresponsible alcoholic who would force him to get money so he would literally have to pay for his dad's liquor.
He has a bad time living in the civilized world because he was used to be in rags and hunt to live, and he is taken top school so hecan learn how to read.



Tom Swayer: Finn's friend, during the book, one night he calls him from his bedroom and he escapes and he takes Finn and a couple of boys to a cave in which they decide to create a gang of robber that will be called "Tom Swayer's Gang" they claim that they will rob, kill and ransom which they don't even know what it means. At the beginning it sounds pretty ugly and scary but they use broomsticks as their "guns" so then you know that the played to be robbers. 


The Widow: Pretty much all you know is that.. She IS a widow and that she adopted huckle because she felt pity for him, she is a very religious person and teaches Huckle some religion.


Jim: A black man who works at the widows house, we don't really know what does he do but he guards the house at night making it hard for huckle to be able to escape to the cave and be able to meet the gang.


"Pap": Huckle's irresponsible drunk and crazy father, he forces his child to get him money so he can buy some cheap liquor.
After a while he kidnaps huckle and takes him to a log cabin in which he is locked up in and despite the efforts of the widow to get him back, she is not legally his mother so he is obligied to stay with his father.






 

I already read about the book and in it I found interesting stuff.
The story starts like this, there is this kid who says that he lived a wild life having adventures and wearing shredded clothes, no one knows if he once lived with his parent but he was alone. Until one day a widow adopted him and he would hate being there because she would make him read, study and wear formal clothes, which was what he most hated. He had a very good friend  Tom Swayer.
One day the kid decides to escape but when he is told by his friend Tom that if he wanted to be in his gang he had to go back with the widow which was how he called her even though she adopted him.
So he decides to do it and after a long day of the widows sister teaching him stuff Tom goes to his house. Then he howls in a sign in which the kid recognizes him and escapes with him.
 
So, the book is veeeery long and pretty tough because the version i'm reading contains very 
"Southern" dialects and that is giving me hard time, but I got lots of recommendations to read it so that's why I chose it. It is simply a classic that you must read before you die.
So I did choose it and it seems to be an interesting book and I'm sure I won't regret choosing it because  it's a classic and it will definitely help me with my grammar and vocabulary due to the fact that it is pretty old and the language is kind of old-british. Any ways... Next week I will post more stuff about it as I start rea  

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