What makes The Adventureso f Huckleberry Finn "good literature" in your opinion?
2007-03-08 15:04:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Its about kids doing kid things and mark twain knew how to articulate well. I think huck would have been forced on ridlin if he were here today.
2007-03-08 15:14:07 · answer #1 · answered by sam hill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read Tom Sawyer when I was about 11-12, and Huck Finn shortly after. I read the books on my own, as a kid (and a girl, too--who said that they were boys' stories?). No literary criticizing, or anything--I just read them because they were good stories.
The good thing about them is that you can read them as adventure stories, *or* you could read them critically to see what methods Twain used to make his writing effective, or to find out his views/commentary on culture and society at the time.
There is some bad words in the story, and some have hinted that Huck Finn, in particular, may expose some of Twain's views that may have not been so "Christian", but overall it's a good read nonetheless. When I was a kid I didn't even know the "n word" was bad, I just thought it was a word they only used in the 1800's; I never notice any anti-christian sentiments, either.... not that I was looking for anything.
Twains books made me love classics. :)
2007-03-09 05:05:07 · answer #2 · answered by Multi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was "real" for the time. I don't think it should be banned, I think it should be read & discussed.
2007-03-08 23:18:41 · answer #3 · answered by shermynewstart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋