This has to be THE WORST book ive ever read in my entire life. If you think this book was "funny" as some of you have stated, then you seriously need to get out more. I didn't find myself even coming close to laughing once. There was no point at all to it, it wasn't realistic at all, and frankly without it the world would be a better place because there wouldn't be all this pointless controversy over it. Mark Twain, I hope you died a painful death for producing this book.
He who laughs last does not get the jokes as fast.
I am sorry that you were only looking for the REALLY funny stuff that Mark Twain wrote. No, this was not cover-to-cover, yuk-yuk; but if you get let in on the secrets, it should get you to grin. It was a satire of how people saw the USA and how we treated each other. No bad students just bad teachers, so here, try this info and see if you might enjoy it when you re-read Huck Finn. I dare you not to at least re-read the introduction after you haveread the following reply I posted elsewhere:
Huck Finn was written partly in response to literary critics who said (in not so many inelegant terms) that Tom Sawyer sucked and that (in general) Americans had no unique language. The literary elite shunned Twain as a ruffian who had no GRAMMAR (BTW- if you protest its abuse, please use spell check, lest you look the fool {a way to remember how to spell it "Your Gramma would not let you use such grammar"}) If you read the introduction, it was an IN YOUR FACE to such snobs, so RE-read and smile with the rest of us.
YES, it was (and still can be misconstrued as meaning to be) insulting to blacks,[BTW2 African-Americans is the politically correct term], but realize that Huck is the character who embodies "employement of rough, coarse, inelegant expression". Twain PURPOSELY used this to make a social commentary on America of the time, while having a secret dig at folks who did nothing to stop racism, just let it exist with an "if you don't say anything about it then the problems do not exist" mentality. Twain LIVED in the area in which he set the story and EXPERIENCED racism and was REPULSED BY IT! He wanted Americans to see the HUMANITY of a socially outcast group who were formerly slaves and still being treated as such. How can one discuss (and change!) a problem without using the words?
Just because you WRITE a word does not make you automatically AGREE with a term. If that were the case, by that logic: YOU are a racist by writing the N-word; liberal political commentator Al Franken would himself be a big fat idiot AND a right wing nut,; Aldoph Hitler would have been Jewish, Senator Ted Kennedy would be a liar and Malcolm X would have been a slave-oppressing, negro hating, blue-eyed white man. (some of those have been explored as being true)
So .................
LOOK at the book again in this light and you could find yourself being a bit more forgiving of a great American novelist.
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