#the adventures of huckleberry finn

[citizenscreen]

On February 18, 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous—and famously controversial—novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the U.S. #OnThisDay

#mark twain #the adventures of huckleberry finn

[lowcountry-gothic]

Cover art for the unreleased comics adaptation of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, by Phil Noto.

#art #phil noto #star wars #the rise of skywalker #ben solo #enric pryde #armitage hux #rey skywalker #the adventures of huckleberry finn #poe dameron #chewbacca #c-3po #bb8 #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #sadly they canceled the comic's release after the film got bad reviews #hopefully they'll release it some day #these adaptations usually end up adding a lot to the story #the novelazation definitely did

[needlefail]

Huck Finn?? More like Fuck Himm CAUSE I CANT STAND HIS ASS

#supposed to be working on creek week but urm #started rewatching tom sawyer and thinking of him instead #huckleberry finn #huck finb #the adventures of tom sawyer #mark twain #dead author who keeps haunting me #the adventures of huckleberry finn #kiri art

[jessequinones]

Writing Lesson: Remembering the Past

I moved from the United States of America to Australia and since then I’ve tried to rewatch some cartoons from my childhood, mainly ones from either Cartoon Network or Boomerang and I can't find them. They're not on any streaming services and I can’t buy physical copies because they’re extremely expensive. Sure Tubi might have some old cartoons such as Popeye or the original Superman, but I didn’t grow up with them. I wanted to rewatch cartoons from the 60s-early 2000s, shows such as The Jetsons, Flintstones, Yogi Bear, the original Animaniacs, Dexters Laboratory, you get the picture.

So why am I bringing all of this up when it comes to writing? Well it got me thinking that yes, while these shows were racist, and aged like milk being left out in the sun, I would argue that it’s still important to rewatch them. Not just for nostalgia shake but as a writer it’s a good idea to remember the past so we don’t repeat it.

I know, “if you don’t remember the past you’ll be doomed to repeat it” but the thing about that saying is, it’s not actually wrong, but I think it get’s overused so no one understands why we say it.

Stories change and evolve over time. The stories we read and were told as kids, might not be the same ones we tell our children because it doesn’t work for them and that’s ok. Stories are supposed to evolve over the years because they show that we as humans are evolving as well. However, if we start to no longer show the past what lessons can we learn to improve?

You see history is a funny thing, if we know our history and the lessons it brings we can do stuff to avoid making the same mistakes as the previous generations. However, if the previous generation's mistakes are lost in time, how can we avoid them if we don’t know what those mistakes are to begin with?

That’s what the saying means. Remember the mistakes our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so on so we don’t make those same mistakes. This is one of the reasons why every couple of generations society seems to go backwards since the mistakes of the past are being forgotten or ignored and we do them again.

Now I’m not one of those people who think we should stay in the past, life was better back in the old days because let’s be honest, it wasn’t. We were just kids and didn’t understand how the world works. I think we should be able to tell new stories while also not wiping the old ones from existence just because the old ones no longer make money. Of course, they aren’t going to make money the people who like old things are old and there'll always be fewer old people compared to younger ones.

All I'm saying is that if we could keep the old stuff available for as long as possible, we should try and do so. Is the past embarrassing and racist? Yes, but so are we. As a society, many stories are being told that I already know aren’t going to age well in the next couple of decades but we shouldn’t forget about them. Keep learning, keep improving, keep being better.

If you want to reread some old books as a bit of a history project I got some for you. "The Giving Tree", "Gone with the Wind", "Lolita" (my god is that a bad story, why was that ever popular?) "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Stranger in a Strange Land". I could go on but those are some classic stories that it would be best not to forget about them. It’s important to understand why they were popular and what newer lessons we can get from them.

I also understand history for most people is kind of a boring subject, and while I don’t have advice on how to make learning fun. Perhaps if you’re a writer, and don’t want to read some old books in the genre you writing in, there might be a Youtube video you could put on or something? I’m not asking anyone to do a ten-page history report, just to try and remember some of the mistakes that were being taught in the old days so we could create new and more progressive ones instead of just repeating the same mistakes and never moving forward.

#writing #writeblr #book #books #history #writers of tumblr #authors of tumblr #bookblr #the giving tree #Stranger in a strange land #gone with the wind #The adventures of Huckleberry Finn #mark twain #writing lessons #the jetsons #the flintstones #dexters laboratory #yogi bear #animaniacs

[libinih28]

you guys ever think about how tom sawyer and pride and prejudice take place during the same time period

#tom sawyer #the adventures of huckleberry finn #the adventures of huck finn #the adventures of tom sawyer #huck finn #huckleberry finn #mark twain #samuel langhorn clemens #samuel clemens #pride and prejudice #jane austen #emma #sense and sensibility #northanger abbey #mansfield park #persuasion jane austen #persuasion #emma jane austen

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Mark Twain, left, with John T. Lewis, a lifelong friend and inspiration for the character Jim in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn')

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February 18, 1885: "Mark Twain publishes his famous–and famously controversial–novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his tremendously successful novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' (1876). Though Twain saw Huck’s story as a kind of sequel to his earlier book, the new novel was far more serious, focusing on the institution of slavery and other aspects of life in the antebellum South. At the book’s heart is the journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on a raft. Jim runs away because he is about to be sold and separated from his wife and children, and Huck goes with him to help him get to Ohio and freedom. Huck narrates the story in his distinctive voice, offering colorful descriptions of the people and places they encounter along the way. The most striking part of the book is its satirical look at racism, religion and other social attitudes of the time. While Jim is strong, brave, generous and wise, many of the white characters are portrayed as violent, stupid or simply selfish, and the naive Huck ends up questioning the hypocritical, unjust nature of society in general. Even in 1885, two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' landed with a splash. A month after its publication, a Concord, Massachusetts, library banned the book, calling its subject matter “tawdry” and its narrative voice “coarse” and “ignorant.” Other libraries followed suit, beginning a controversy that continued long after Twain’s death in 1910. In the 1950s, the book came under fire from African-American groups for being racist in its portrayal of black characters, despite the fact that it was seen by many as a strong criticism of racism and slavery. As recently as 1998, an Arizona parent sued her school district, claiming that making Twain’s novel required high school reading made already existing racial tensions even worse. Aside from its controversial nature and its continuing popularity with young readers, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' has been hailed by many serious literary critics as a masterpiece. No less a judge than Ernest Hemingway famously declared that the book marked the beginning of American literature: “There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”" 

- history.com 'A heroic deed, a rewarding friendship' - via The Washington Times: https://bit.ly/2V4sHN3 [Random History of the Day]

#literature #quotes #stories #Huck Finn #Tom Sawyer #Samuel Clemens #Mark Twain #racism #The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn #literary masterpiece #history #The South

[paul-ster]

I’m fighting the urge to switch fandoms.

Anyways YALL READ THE JUVIE THREE PLEASSE 😭 there isn’t even an Ao3 page for them :( (but there is for the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn :33

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Jk, I love the outsiders too much to leave too quickly :D

#the outsiders #the adventures of huckleberry finn #the adventures of Tom Sawyer #The Juvie Three #PLEASE YALL READ IT #ao3 writer #fanfic #write #se hinton #Terence Florian is a mood #I don’t know why I’m posting #:(

[grandtyphoonpoetry]

Some of the most classic and controversial novels about growing up are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I love how they're both about young boys and to that extent, growing up, but in totally different situations. Tom Sawyer kind of opens the door to topics like social hypocrisy, and social pressures, and friendship and love. In a way the audience understands easily, and in settings that weren't particularly sensitive.

And then with that door open and those topics addressed, Huckleberry Finn revisits all of those topics again but this time talking about important issues like racism and class, issues that were controversial at the time and still are now. Whether it was done intentionally or not, it feels like you're growing up with the books when you read them as kids and topics that might've been foreign, aren't. You start the story with Tom and his shenanigans, fighting against his petty enemies, feeling the pressure he feels to act a certain way and then act out, be true to his friends, start to learn how the world works and make choices that will alter the course of his life. It's fun and exciting and relatable and interesting. And then the story continues and you're with Huck, and you're older now and so is he. And you're facing topics of abuse, and he's running away, you're introduced to racism back then and he's making new friends and acting against social pressures, you're learning how the world works and he's making decisions that will alter the course of his life. and while they're different stories and we love them differently, Tom Sawyer prepared you to understand Huck Finn and if it didn't make sense before it does now.

#tom sawyer #huckleberry finn #the adventures of tom sawyer #the adventures of huckleberry finn #mark twain #literature #they say the same thing #when you google book themes #night speaks with al

[nimos-flakes]

Hucksune Miku ^_^

#huckleberry finn #huck finn #the adventures of huckleberry finn #the adventures of tom sawyer #tom sawyer no bouken #viva viva happy chu lu chu chu

[mirciamira]

The adventures of Huck Finns chapter names sound like Ethel Cain song titles

#ethel cain #preachers daughter #mother cain #mark twain #the adventures of huckleberry finn

[james-vane-stan]

reeks of tom sawyer and huck finn (do they have a ship name?)

#appl's phonograph #the adventures of tom sawyer #the adventures of huckleberry finn #huckelberry finn #huck finn #tom sawyer #Spotify

[citizenscreen]

On February 18, 1885, Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” #OnThisDay

#mark twain #the adventures of huckleberry finn

[writelikeurruninoutoftime]

say what you want but the first gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss moment was when Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Jim convinced a slave witches were making him hear things and they didn’t know each other after Jim greeted Tom and Huck by name.

#the adventures of huckleberry finn #huck finn #huckleberry finn #tom sawyer #classic literature #mark twain #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #shitpost #prove me wrong

[chuplayswithfire]

ugh i didn't want to derail the post talking about this because the post was making excellent points and the adventures of huckleberry finn IS in fact an excellent book that can be used constructively in a number of ways but like -

when people talk about how much racism there is in that book, yes they are missing the point, but i also have to give them grace and wonder if they just aren't able to fully articulate their thoughts and feelings on the readings of that book. because my own thought is: how many of the people taking about how useful that book is for particularly learning about racism and defying it had the actual experience of being a student of color in a classroom of majority white students with a white teacher, reading that book and talking about it and having passages of it read out loud? what about being a black student in that situation?

because that was easily one of my least favorite experiences in high school, and i had some experiences in high school. i was the only black kid in my class, one of like three students of color in the class at all, and i can't forget the relish in the voices of my most racist white peers as they got to read nigger out loud. the way half the class would look at me from the corners of their eyes as they read it and talked about it. as my white teacher continued on the lesson without a word about the language used. i haven't forgotten how the kid who sat behind me in class called me a nigger for refusing to let him cheat off my homework about that very same book. i haven't forgotten the way our peers heard him and either giggled or gasped and either way said nothing.

sometimes its not just about the content of the book, but about the instruction of it. about the damage it can cause when the instruction is poor and the students sitting there are told not to be sensitive, are told this book is valuable, are told they should be learning something about racism here.

oh yeah, i was learning something about racism there.

and the decision not to censor the n word was intentional. if you flinched or had a reaction to reading it here, if it made you uncomfortable, sit in that discomfort and the next time you feel ready to argue with someone about how that book and others like it are inherently valuable and its misunderstanding the material to consider that you don't think it should be taught in schools, think about how much worse that can be when you're a high school student in a class full of people so eager to have sanctioned permission to speak that word out loud and there's nothing you can do or say about your own discomfort, even online, without being ridiculed for misunderstanding the point of it all or lacking critical thinking skills.

#racism #education #literature #huckleberry finn #the adventures of huckleberry finn #ugh every time i see those posts i just get so frustrated because YEAH some people are just being IDIOTS but you can't assume that #especially with a book like THAT

[thekinginjello]

My parents got me a 'Greatest First Lines of Literature' mug for Christmas. It has quotes from some favourites of mine and some from books that I have yet to read, so I'm eager to check some of them out in the new year.

(I'm drinking Genmaicha tea for those wondering.)

#christmas #merry christmas #happy holidays #coffee mug #writeblr #bookblr #literature #1984 #nineteen eighty four #fahrenheit 451 #the adventures of huckleberry finn #george orwell #ray bradbury #mark twain #books

[needlefail]

Huckleberry Finn to me

#huck finn #the adventures of huckleberry finn #huckleberry finn #mark twain #the adventures of tom sawyer