This is the masterpiece of Mark Twain, and is also a far-reaching work in the history of American literature.
The hero of the story is Huckleberry Finn, who meets you in the adventures of Tom sawyer. Huckleberry is a smart, kind, brave white boy, accustomed to free street life, and later became the widow Douglas's son, all wearing crisp clothes, endless learning really makes him sad of the sacred rules of the religious order. When he got used to this kind of life and received education, the drunk father who disappeared for more than a year suddenly appeared and forced his son to live with him in a shelter from the woods. The end of life in the woods too observant of conventional standards., hunting fish, live a life of freedom, but the father drunk wine mad and often launched hit him, be intolerable. In order to avoid the abuse of Huck's alcoholic father, Jefferson fled to the island, who fled slave Jim, the two go hand in hand, trying to flee from the Mississippi River on the northern free state. In order to escape the hunt, they hid in the woods during the day and only came out at night. After many hardships, they finally drifted into a big river bay, and thought that when they reached safety, they went ashore to inquire about them, and then they became more and more deeply into the slave area. On the way, Jim was sold by two swindlers. Finally, Huck rescued Jim who was sold by the swindler under the help of his good friend Tom, and learned that Jim's slave status had been relieved. Finally, Huckleberry made up his mind to go to the place where the Indians lived, and to live a wandering and free life.
Haq is a very brave boy. At the time, fled with a runaway slave, need courage, and help the slaves free need more courage, even though he knows that this is not only contrary to the law, will go to hell, but he was so brave to do. As a child growing up in a white society, Huck is inevitably influenced by nationalism, reactionary preaching and social ethos. He didn't know how to look at racism and slavery, and the social tradition had a fierce conflict with the integrity and goodness of his young mind. In fact, Huck is struggling all the time. He doesn't know whether his ideas are right or what the society says is right. Although according to the law, Jim was a black slave belonging to Miss Watson, but in the moral sense, he thought he should help Jim break free from slavery and gain freedom. His conscience always warns him that it is immoral to kidnap the master's slave." When he finally could not bear the heart of the struggle, it was impossible to refute the "conscience" of the accused, to write to Jim's owner Miss Watson, suddenly remembered the past and Jim on the River drift time, think of them in the raft along with life, think of Jim's heart, think of the friendship between them, think of Jim called him "the world's best and only friend". Finally he took the letter and said, "well, then go to hell and go to hell." and then he ripped off the letter all at once.
Some people think that this novel is an outstanding children's literature, but Mark Twain himself didn't admit that this book is not to see the child he mentioned in the preface, only adults can understand it, it is specially written for minors." How ironic it is! Mark Twain, known as "Lincoln in American Literature", a great man who led a civil war in literature, his works have been rated as children's literary works. I believe that literature is not very high, but the theme of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn is still a little understood: anti racism and criticizing the evil slavery is the basic idea of the novel.
Of course, the novel also has obvious limitations. As an anti hero storage system in a 14 year old children, will take the boat leaves as a safe haven, the liberation of Kim on a paper that Miss Watson's pardon...... All this shows Mark Twain discontented and helpless mood.
"Huckleberry - The Adventures of Finn" is a book to read, you can not only enjoy the simple rhetoric in the book, also can bring to the black experience of American slavery and suffering, an honest child's heart.