![]() ![]() Much has been written about the statement Twain is making about slavery in this book, but it's really secondary to the story. At each stop, Huck engages his talent for mixing fact with bald-faced lies to endlessly get himself out of situations. Huck and Jim experience life as a series of tableaus as the river sweeps them through small towns on their way South. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into the backwoods, downriver yokel he started as, and in the process springing a slave, Jim, from bondage. ![]() In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. ![]() , listen for free online at the digital library site Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2) - description and summary of the book. ![]()
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