The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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Huckleberry Finn

by 14guerreroa, September 07, 2012

It's a very confusing book. Half of it I don't understand!

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Climax

by 1Dvashappening, November 04, 2012

I really don't think that what sparknotes says about the climax is true. When huck was thinking about writing the letter, it didn't seem so, you know, climaxy...

I think when Huck managed to escape when they found the bag of gold on the corpses stomach in the middle of the night, and then how he got caught by the two rascals is the climax. Or when they were running away from the farmers and their guns.

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Jim and Huck's Relationship

by MishterSkullzy, November 27, 2012

Throughout the story you notice that Jim and Huck's relationship change slowly throughout the story, and actually induces the climax of the story.

In the beginning of the story Huck is the same as he was in the prequel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was much more of a childrens book
(I've read Tom Sawyer, and reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn afterword about 6 years later seems almost like the book grew up with me, becoming more mature, and not so "sprinkled in sugar")
At first, Jim and Huck (after Huck's f... Read more

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