The book that I would rather not read.

Book name: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Reason for Reading: English class
Summary: Chapter's 1-10


Ok, to start of I have to tell you I am not at all, someone who enjoys reading. Helen Keller has more of a chance of seeing than me enjoying to read(sorry Helen). But anyway to ramble on about this amazing book, that was sarcasm in case you couldn't tell, I was assigned to read it along with the rest of my class for English class. Part of the assignment besides the whole reading part, is we had to make a blog, which I'm pretty sure is obvious by now, at least I would hope so...So this first blog is going to be pretty much on somethings in the first 10 chapters and my thoughts on Mr. Finn and his crazy adventures.

 So where do I begin? How about I start off with the beginning? Alright...


Now this long tale is set sometime around the 1830s era, down South mostly in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, which I guess is somewhere near the Mississippi River(I love spelling Mississippi). So anyway, I'm sure you already know the main character is Huckleberry Finn by know, but in this blog since 1. I am way to lazy to keep having to spell Huckleberry Finn out and 2. I don't think that anyone reading this wants to read Huckleberry Finn every time I say Huckleberry Finn I think I will just say Huck Finn. Well, Huck Finn gets adopted by a widow which everyone calls Widow Douglas, which seems rude to me but who cares this isn't my book right.


Widow Douglas lives with her sister Miss Watson, who together are pretty wealthy, which in my opinion would be so happy to live them. Miss Watson happens to have a slave named Jim, who the book says is black, as if he could be white. The Widow seems like she is a very nice lady, she's quite religious, and puts up with Huck Finn so you know she has to have some patience. Where as her sister, Miss Watson, is a cold hearted woman, who doesn't seem to have much faith in God. I'll Explain more about Jim later, all you need to know right now about him is he's black. That is just one major thing I dont like about this book, the use of the word "nigger". The word itself is from the Latin word "niger" which means black, but of course the "white man" had to come along and bring the blacks down some more as if they already weren't on the bottom of the food chain below the bacteria from a waste infested pond. But this is a discussion for another time.

The character that I really don't like is Pap, which is Huck Finn's father. He is just a straight up jerk, I mean like who beats on their own son just because he does bad in school. The guy is the town drunk and shows up after a year, and decides he wants Huck Finn back, but everyone knows he just wants Huck Finn for his fortune. Like what kind of father does that...I would never be able to deal with somebody like that....

So all together I think this book sucks...but that is just my opinion. There are times where this book can be ok, like I like the way that Mark Twain uses the word "nigger", though I am part black I hate when even black people say it...but then again it makes the book more real to what it was back in those days. Another thing I very much dislike about this book is how they jump from scene to scene, it keeps on confusing me and making this book much harder to understand...So that is my summary/my thoughts on this crappy book.