Huck Finn is a buddy of Tom Sawyer. His dad is an absent drunkard, and Huck spends most of his life hopping around. He decides to run away and ends up rafting down the river with Jim, a runaway slave. Their adventures are a commentary of the issues and idiosyncrasies of southern life. Huck is torn between different societal values with Jim. He is "property" so he should be returned. He is also a "person" so should have his freedom. He also observes some seemingly well-to-do southerners that are involved in a huge feud that leads to them all dying. Later they run into grifters that declare themselves royalty. Huck plays along because it is not a big deal, even though he does not believe them. They have some more adventures. Later he ends up meeting with Tom and they work to free Jim, only for Huck later learn that Jim had already been freed. The end faded a bit from the quality of the main part, but it was pretty good. It is an interesting view of change of vocabulary offensiveness that the use of the n-word has lead to a lot of banning of this book, even though it was considered common use for a children's book during the day.
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