What is your favourite book? My favourite one is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Read on to find out why.
"Let us say you
were transferred to an island where you could only pick one fiction book, and
only one. Your decision would be limited to just the English classics, books
with more than one hundred years of age. Which book would you choose? Would you
be more inclined to romance rather than adventure? Would you prefer Jane Austen
to Mark Twain? Well, in my case the decision would go to Mark Twain, and his
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.
Huckleberry Finn
is a book that comprises adventures, emotions, a historical context, a rebel
and a happy ending. The adventures in the book appeal to young people as well
as grown-ups. This boy-adult protagonist escapes to the Mississippi from a
brutal father and survives in the wild by fishing or hunting until he meets the
escaped slave. That is when he decides to help him. In his journey he shares
the raft with “scumbugs”, witnesses the fighting between two families,
disguises himself as a girl, escapes from the site of a murder and prepares the
evasion of his friend from prison.
The emotions are
revealed in the friendship that arises as the two fugitives sail down the
Mississippi river. Huck will remain loyal to this slave till the end even
though he feels his conscious telling him that his actions are wrong. In spite
of his upbringing, the drunkard father and the lack of education and a mother,
his noble heart will always tell Huck which road to choose.