Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (taking place after The Adventures of Tom Sawyer). He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there," Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two books.

Huckleberry

Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is the son of the town's vagrant drunkard, "Pap" Finn. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he receives from others, Huck lives the life of a destitute vagabond. The author metaphorically names him "the juvenile pariah of the village" and describes Huck as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad," qualities for which he was admired by all the children in the village, although their mothers "cordially hated and dreaded" him.

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Far Right Reading List Shows Link Between Its Literature and Real-World Violence

truthout 05 Jul 2020

On May 4, far right personalities Milo Yiannopoulos and Michelle Malkin published what they call their “America First” reading list as a Google Doc that they then promoted through their social media accounts ... Defining American Literature ... Augustine and Shakespeare in addition to Americana like Huckleberry Finn and Paul Revere’s Ride ... DuBois ... ....

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Mississippi River holds a means of escape — and a playground for bow anglers

Killeen Daily Herald 01 Jul 2020

ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Minn. — From Winona north to the Twin Cities and farther north still to its headwaters in Itasca State Park, this river bends like an artery through Minnesota, and is forever in motion ... In Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the Mississippi represents many things to Huck and his pal Jim ... “There!” ... ——— ... ————— ... .......

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EF Spring Patrick Minda Q&A

Herald-Standard 29 Jun 2020

What are your post-graduation plans? I will be attending Penn State Fayette for Atmospheric Science and Meteorology. I will also be playing baseball there ... Wemyss ... Favorite food? Hot Italian hoagie. Favorite book? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... .......

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Elvis Presley as Moby Dick

Village Voice 29 Jun 2020

Elvis Presley as Moby Dick. May 26, 1975 ... H. Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature and F.O ... Marcus believes that rock ‘n’ roll no more deserves to be pigeonholed as a transient manifestation of “youth” culture than Huckleberry Finn deserves to be thought of as an adventure tale for 10-year-old boys ... ....

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Byron Williams: An ally for the ages

Winston-Salem Journal 28 Jun 2020

If one wishes to be an ally of any variety, there may be no better American literary source than “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Though consistently among the books most often banned by libraries and school boards nationwide, this Mark Twain masterpiece offers an uncomfortable but no less instructive lesson....

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LETTER: We can’t stand by and let the mobs destroy our history

Las Vegas Review-Journal 27 Jun 2020

If you’re a parent or a grandparent, do you really want to deprive your child of classics such as “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Little House on the Prairie” or countless others that don’t fit the radical left’s ideals? If ......

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Hicks: Moving Calhoun's statue has become a new chapter in Charleston history

The Post and Courier 26 Jun 2020

More than a century after his death, the cancel culture is still trying to take out Mark Twain. Rarely a year goes by without some people trying to get Huckleberry Finn kicked out of schools. Because they contend the novel is racist ... Yes, the book includes racial stereotypes and slurs that decent folks don’t use today ... Calhoun ... John F ... ....

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Column: Why are the Democrats silent?

Dispatch Argus 26 Jun 2020

On April 8, 1933, the Main Oﬃce for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Union ("GSU") proclaimed a nationwide "Action against the Un-German Spirit ." ... William L ... "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Gone with The Wind" and "To Kill a Mocking Bird" may not be seen or read in some places ... Tom Cotton's op-ed ... ....

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Black in a white state

Deseret News 23 Jun 2020

Dash Cox, owner of Title Boxing Club Cottonwood Heights, works with first-time client Kelly Banser, as he conducts a class on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News ... In ninth grade English class, we were reading “Huckleberry Finn,” which has the n-word in it, and the teacher said if the kids wanted to say it out loud, they could ... ....

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Letters to the Editor June 24, 2020: What’s true in Peru

The Jerusalem Post 23 Jun 2020

What’s true in Peru ... CARLOS DANIEL CHAVEZ-TAFFUR SCHMIDT ... ... DR ... Dictionaries are changing definitions of words – like “racism.” Libraries are pulling classic works, such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn, off the shelves, and media groups are pulling the plug on cop shows, movies like Gone with the Wind and more ... ....

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‘Everybody has their eyes on America’: Black Lives Matter goes global

Business Day Online 22 Jun 2020

“A lot of white kids — who listen to hip-hop or rap — see the injustice of the police or prison system and say ... Culture becomes poorer, argues Mr Khoo, when books such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, both widely acknowledged to be anti-racist, are pulled from the school curriculum because they contain characters using racist language....

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Colson Whitehead: 'We invent all sorts of different reasons to hate people'

The Observer 21 Jun 2020

When Time magazine put Colson Whitehead on its cover a year ago, it referred to him simply as “America’s Storyteller” ... “This isn’t just a history lesson, not while we still have to assert that black lives matter, and not while [the characters of] Elwood and Turner are more likely to remind us of Trayvon Martin than Huckleberry Finn.” ....

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How long before the junior morality police head for the libraries to burn "Huckleberry Finn"?

Democratic Underground 20 Jun 2020

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... In his introduction to The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, Michael Patrick Hearn writes that Twain "could be uninhibitedly vulgar", and quotes critic William Dean Howells, a Twain contemporary, who wrote that the author's "humor was not for most women"....