This is a Reflection

For the most part, I enjoyed reading Huck Finn. I generally like reading books that manage to be funny while having some literary value at the same time. It was far more entertaining than The Scarlet Letter (which I didn't mind as much as other people, although it was a bit overwhelming to read sometimes).

The fact that the satire like Huck Finn is meant to ridicule targets like society or education is appealing to me, because I'm a jerk and enjoy mocking things or reading something that mocks something. Some of my favorite parts of the book include Jim's doubting of King Solomon's wisdom, Emmeline Grangerford's hilariously depressing personality, Buck Grangerford's inability to properly explain the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud, and Tom Sawyer deciding to "let on" that he and Huck had been trying to free Jim for decades, among other events.


I also appreciate how Twain put in effort when making his writing reflect the speech patterns of the novel's characters. Otherwise, the book would have been less interesting to read, although it probably would have been a tiny bit easier to understand what the characters were saying at some points.