This semester, I did not have to read any books in any other classes. To, me, being that I am an English major, this was amazing. I don't think I have ever had a semester with such little reading to do. In one way, this was good, because it gave me more time to focus on other aspects of my classes. In another way, it was not good. I enjoy reading and I like being introduced to new stories and ideas. Sometimes, I end up hating them, but other times, I end up loving them. So, this semester was a win/lose situation
One book that I was forced to read over the summer (which was the last semester I had) was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. It had actually been a really long time since I read that story, and I enjoyed doing so. It is a classic story and there are many more important themes in it then I remembered there to be. This may be because the most vivid memories that I have of Huckleberry Finn are from the Johnathan Taylor Thomas movie Tom and Huck and the episode of Wishbone (the show where a Jack Russell Terrier played different roles in classic stories in order to teach them to kids) in witch Wishbone played Tom Sawyer. So, in retrospect, the story was more adult then I remembered it to be.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was actually a book that I was pleased to read, so my summer class went pretty smoothly. The themes of slavery, women, prejudice, and more are very prominent in the book, and being that the story is being told by an abandoned boy, it makes it much more easy to relate to. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are both classic books that I will be able to read at any time for the rest of my life.
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I love Huck Finn. Four years ago, the New York Post gave away copies of it to anyone who bought the paper, and I spent the next few days reading it on the subway and wherever I went in town. I was always looking at other passengers, expecting them to be reading it too. But no. I was also a little embarrassed to be reading it in public because of the racist attitudes throughout. And Twain was an enlightened man for his time!
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