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Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain by Brad Montague |
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May 10th, 2007 12:08pm |
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The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain by Brad Montague
A loose sequel to Twain’s popular book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River provide the backdrop for this enchanting story.
Sick of all of the confinement and civilization that life has forced upon him, Huck and Jim (Miss Watson’s slave) flee. The two adventurers spend nights and days journeying down the river, both in search of freedom. While traveling on a raft down the river, Huck and Jim have many adventures and during many long talks, become the best of friends.
They find a house with a dead man. The dead man’s name is Bernie and he is Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy’s boss. They use voo-doo powers to help keep up the illusion that he is alive. Needless to say, this leads to some hilarious misadventures and wacky situations. A steamboat, driven by Bernie, wrecks into Jim and Huck’s raft seperating the two.
Huck Finn then meets a lovely girl named Rose on the steamboat. He holds his arms out like a bird on the edge of the boat as love type music is playing. This causes the ship to sink and all it’s rich passengers flee to lifeboats as a violinist plays some old spiritual song or something. Jim sees this from the shore and tells Huck to stop “acting a foo” and to “dust off his shoulda” and to “git-r-done.” Mr. Twain is famous for using real life vernacular in his writings and The Adventures of Huck Finn is no exception.
As the robots’ emminent strike draws closer, our two heroes mount their multi-corns (unicorns with more than one horn). They work to unite the different tribes against the army of futuristic robots and their evil super computer, Rodney. This task is made more difficulter by the fact that Jim has suddently lost all of his slave powers. Huck has to find all the stones in the Tri-Force in order to restore Jim to his full strength or else he and the entire human race is doomed to be robot slaves forever.
It is when the Volcano of Justice erupts that things really get interesting. The professor arrives just in time from the future to stop the lava from destroying our hero’s new gold bicycles (given to them by King Vitamin and his Merry Band of Meerkats). As the gnomes ride in on their wild dogs, Jim’s powers return and he screams, “Aw naw you didn’t.” Twain describes the blood and destruction so well that you feel like you’re there. He also injects his signature southern wit into these situations – as when the robot says, “What is this boy? Some kinda Connecticut Yankee or something.” I also especially loved the way he described the Wizard’s electricity.
Through all of the adventures down the river, Huck learns a variety of life lessons and improves as a person. He develops a conscience and truly feels for humanity. The complexity of his character is enhanced by his ability to relate so easily with nature and the river.
::::::Brad Montague is a college and high school graduate and has never read The Adventures of Huck Finn in it’s entirety. He has, however, turned this paper in for a grade and received exceptional marks.:::::::::;
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