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As a young adult, I would not recommend this book. I was assigned to read it as a summer project and I simply did not care for it. Some of it, in fact, was rather offending. For one, the countless times Mark Twain makes fun of the black race is just disgusting. It seems one of the main ideas in the book is that the black race is unintelligent and good for nothing besides caring for the white people. It really bothered me how much he put them down on almost every single page. That is why some parts of America are still fighting racism, because young children and adults are being showered with old ideas that we are trying to get rid of today.
Despite the constant racial comments in the book, it all depends on its reader how the information is taken. Yes, they are constantly using the N word and putting down the black race, but if the novel is read well, it is evident that Jim was no fool. He had incredible common sense; more than most of the white people named in the book. Yes, he was unnecessarily superstitious, but he always knew how to take care of himself, and he was constantly looking out for Huck Finn. He may not have been the most intelligent character in the book, but he sure was loyal to his friends, and that right there makes a man smart in my opinion.
Besides the racial controversy, the book itself is not terrible. It is quite hard to understand in some parts because of the accents that the different characters use, but for the most part, it teaches that a person gets what is coming to them. Several times in the story it tells of crooks and thieves that lie to get what they want and you think they're going to get away with it, but at the very end of the book, they get what they deserve. Overall, I would not recommend this book to the younger, more impressionable youth, but to mature young adults that can read this novel and learn the life lessons that it teaches.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
ipseityy, August 6, 2006
As a young adult, I would not recommend this book. I was assigned to read it as a summer project and I simply did not care for it. Some of it, in fact, was rather offending. For one, the countless times Mark Twain makes fun of the black race is just disgusting. It seems one of the main ideas in the book is that the black race is unintelligent and good for nothing besides caring for the white people. It really bothered me how much he put them down on almost every single page. That is why some parts of America are still fighting racism, because young children and adults are being showered with old ideas that we are trying to get rid of today.Despite the constant racial comments in the book, it all depends on its reader how the information is taken. Yes, they are constantly using the N word and putting down the black race, but if the novel is read well, it is evident that Jim was no fool. He had incredible common sense; more than most of the white people named in the book. Yes, he was unnecessarily superstitious, but he always knew how to take care of himself, and he was constantly looking out for Huck Finn. He may not have been the most intelligent character in the book, but he sure was loyal to his friends, and that right there makes a man smart in my opinion.
Besides the racial controversy, the book itself is not terrible. It is quite hard to understand in some parts because of the accents that the different characters use, but for the most part, it teaches that a person gets what is coming to them. Several times in the story it tells of crooks and thieves that lie to get what they want and you think they're going to get away with it, but at the very end of the book, they get what they deserve. Overall, I would not recommend this book to the younger, more impressionable youth, but to mature young adults that can read this novel and learn the life lessons that it teaches.
(22 of 43 readers found this comment helpful)