Finished Huck Finn

I finished Huck Finn last Monday, but I kept procrastinating this post. Well, I want to be a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.

Huck Finn introduced an ensemble of unlikable characters. The duke, the king, even Tom Sawyer were all unlikable even though the latter was just annoying. It annoyed me that the last 40 or so pages could have been eliminated if it hadn't been for Tom Sawyer, and had been cut even shorter if Tom Sawyer wasn't adventure-greedy. Not very many authors I know of purposefully introduce unlikable characters, but Mark Twain might have done this because of annoyance for people themselves. I don't know - Mark Twain was an interesting man.

Remember last time I posted and I said it more just one adventure for Huck Finn? I was wrong. Because of the self-proclaimed duke and king, there was an unnecessary amount of shenanigans in the different towns everywhere, all mainly to get money that Jim and Huck would have never looked for. What annoyed me most was how mad the king was that Huck tried to ditch him. Huck and Jim were the ones that saved him, offered him their beds, and carried them through the towns. But he was probably drunk at the time, so I don't know how to properly judge the situation. Either way, I'm glad the fight was broken up by the duke. So really, Huck Finn deserved the word "adventures" more than Tom Sawyer actually did. I would discuss my annoyance with Tom Sawyer in the story, but that would spoil too much of the ending.

One last talk about the book in comparison to Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer, a much more fun story that accurately represents childhood, is so light that its most famous chapter is the second one in which he gets kids to whitewash a fence for him, and it has nothing to do with the rest of the story. Huck Finn delves much deeper, but it is still more of a fun story than an intelligent story to observe deeper meanings and analogies throughout the story. It is much like the notice made by Mark Twain to the story:
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.

Huck Finn Chapters 1-16(out of 42), pages 1-91(out of 279)

Having read Tom Sawyer, its very similar to Huckleberry Finn. However, TAOHF is a bit more serious, a bit more of an acutal story without miscellaneous little stories. Tom Sawyer actually met the part of "Adventures", but it seems so far like for Huck Finn it will be more towards "Adventure." There are some aspects that are amplified into Huck Finn. The main two are:
- The time era
- Superstitions
As a matter of fact, Tom Sawyer focused more on the timelessness of childhood, while Huck Finn does the exact opposite and focuses on the time era. And the superstitions, especially ones considering what brings bad luck and good luck, controls a lot of the actions in the story.
As for the plot itself, it's much more interesting than Tom Sawyer is - I'm still reading Tom Sawyer. It has much more realistic and interesting events, and it gives good insight into being grown into a bad family.
There are a lot of events and vocabulary in the story about travelling in the river that kind of confuse me. But eventually, in about two paragraphs or so, I understand it based on the context. Next week I might not post as much about it being compared and contrasted to Tom Sawyer, but it was a good place to start.