Modern Review of Huckleberry Finn

Here's my critique of Huckleberry Finn:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both books were written by Mark Twain in the 1880's.

At their time, TS and HF were the stories that everyone that could read wanted to read. Because of this, Mark Twain became a legendary American Author.

Times change, however. Ain't nobody speakin' like them there folks in this here story no more, and ignoring them rules of grammar.

HF would be a good story, but it's too old and out of date to be interesting. I'm sure there are a few people in the South that still speak like the characters in this book, but they're a dying breed. Most people in the US all speak the same, albeit with varying accents. The text in HF is extremely hard to understand. Read pages 279 (starting with "Well, Sister Phelps...") to 282 (ending with "...took a walk.")

If somebody could convert HF, and maybe even TS, into modern text, then this would be a great book, and I wouldn't have a problem with it.

One huge reason I didn't like this book (though not quite as huge as the fact I couldn't understand half the story) was the use of the N-Word so many times. It was said aproximately 230 times! (silverchips.mbhs.edu/inside.php?sid=5187 - 81k)

All in all, I give this book a 2 out of 5

score: 2/5

MS Word Author study

The rest of this author study was done on MS Word. When the author study is due I will print it and hand it in, along with the blog.