The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature. By satirizing a Southern antebellum society that was already anachronistic at the time, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. It is commonly regarded as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It seems like most versions focus on the adventures and the basic anti-slavery race message and leave out the misanthropic tones of Twain when he comments on religion, how fake people can be, fighting, family honor, mob mentality and so on.Download cover art Download CD case insert Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 4)Īdventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), often shortened to Huck Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain and published in 1884. There's many dark scenes in the book Huck being abused by his father, Jim being dressed up as the Arab, the thieves potential drowning in the steamship, and Huck finding the dead body of a good friend. I'm going to watch the 1960 version here soon, but my impression is that all the films of the story are family oriented, which means they leave out a lot of the cruelty of the novel. It really needs to be redone as accurately as possible, maybe with Soderbergh or Alfonso Cuaron directing.Agreed. The 1930s version isn't as good as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer made at almost the same time. The best thing about the 1960 version is the Jerome Moross score.
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