Huck Finn

A lot happens in the first 41 pages (six chapters) of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry who I will refer to as Huck is a young boy living with his widowed aunt in the riverside town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. His mother had died and his father is a drunk who beats on Huck at any given opportunity which to the reader is very depressing but Huck has grown used to it. Huck is close friends with Tom Sawyer who the author of this book, Mark Twain, wrote about in a previous novel. Huck ran into a fortune with Tom in the previous story and he is left with $6,000 worth of gold which would be about $200,000 in today’s money. He has entrusted this money with a local friend and judge.

This book is already diving into themes such as racism, unfair governments and a desire for adventure which I think is going to develop into a really strong novel. I picked this book because I had it and I had never read it before but I know it is a classic so I am excited to see where this goes!