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Finn: A Novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Lit2Go ETC The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a first person narrative told by the title character Huckleberry Finn as he accompanies a runaway slave on his journey to freedom. Gone Girl (novel) - Wikipedia Gone Girl is a thriller novel by the writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel soon made the New York Times Best Seller ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Metaphor Analysis ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Metaphor Analysis Free Study Guides and book notes including comprehensive chapter analysis complete summary analysis author ... Novel-T Literary T-Shirt Jerseys Welcome to Novel-T ... Novel-T literary t-shirt jerseys are the perfect way to SparkNotes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes the SparkNotes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide has everything you need to ... Huck Finn Controversy - homepages.wmich.edu The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn. Peaches Henry. Satire and Evasion: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn 1992 SparkNotes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Important ... Explanation of the famous quotes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn including all important speeches comments quotations and monologues. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - shmoop.com Struggling with Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Check out our thorough summary and analysis of this literary masterpiece. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Wikipedia Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or in more recent editions The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain first published in the United Kingdom in ... LoudLit.org: Collection: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Author: Mark Twain; Performer: Marc Devine; Director: Warren Smith LiteralSystems; Engineer: Warren Smith LiteralSystems Rank: #1512771 in eBooksPublished on: 2010-01-03Released on: 2010-01-03Format: Kindle eBook 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.FinnBy Teen ReadsIn Matthew Olshan's FINN, the author doesn't so much update Mark Twain's classic, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, as use it as a device to avoid the PC police. It's a brilliant move, really, because it saves him from a trap that often plagues writers of teen books, i.e., how do you make good, nice, wholesome people interesting. And you can't, of course. Real people, even good people, think and do things that aren't so nice sometimes. In teen books, authors make their heroes safe to the point of dullness to avoid offending the reader, and more importantly, the reader's parents. By adapting Twain, Olshan sidesteps the issue. With just a nod to historicity, he can let his heroine badmouth various minorities without fear of reprisal. "Don't approve of likable racists" he seems to be saying, "Well, I'm updating Twain here." In Olshan's modern take on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the hero is a girl called Finn --- real name: Chloe. Jim is now a pregnant Mexican maid named Silvia. She's not a slave but an exploited illegal alien; her dream is still freedom, but to the West not north. Other details remain the same. As in the original, the mismatched pair journeys through a fantastical slice of America, where danger and excitement surround them. Fortunately, Olshan doesn't water down any of it. The risks the partners face and the depth of human evil they uncover are starkly real; Finn suffers beatings, kidnappings, and attempted sexual assault. As is to be expected in an adaptation, little similarities to the source material run rampant. Olshan chooses not to conceal them. In fact, part of his method is to throw them at the reader like party favors. The mighty Mississippi becomes a paved drainage ditch, an abandoned rowboat becomes a raft, and so on. All very cute; but beyond flattering the reader's literary knowledge, it doesn't mean much. Occasionally, Olshan uses ideas from the original book in more substantive ways, and the results are better. Finn daydreaming quietly beside her modern river, as Huck did beside his, is a genuinely bucolic moment that loses none of its power by being borrowed. However, these moments are few and far between. That Olshan has chosen to adapt Twain is not surprising: Twain was a keen social critic, and Olshan aspires to a similar style. But Olshan lacks Twain's eagle eye for hypocrisy. He can spin a yarn, but his thoughts on "society" tend toward the obvious. Worse, at times he lets his opinions cloud his prose. Finn's appeal is that she's a straight shooter. When she gets aw-shucksy to highlight an injustice, things fall apart. "The fact that we were white seemed to make us invisible, which was the opposite of my grandparents neighborhood, where it's black people who are invisible. Wait, I take that back. It wasn't exactly the opposite. In my grandparents neighborhood they just pretended that black people were invisible. Black people are actually watched very closely there." It's as if these sentences are backlit with flashing neon signs reading "meaningful content here." The more Olshan strives to make points about the world rather than his characters, the thinner his insights become. Finn is a wonderful hero, and a fully modern one, but FINN never lives up to its grander ambitions. Although the book is geared towards older teenagers, its brisk plotting and trendy subject matter make it a quick and enjoyable read for just about anyone; but it's insights will only be significant to children or young teenagers. As an updating of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, the book misses its mark. What makes Twain's masterpiece great is the world view it embodies and the grace with which it embodies it. FINN succeeds as a story but not as a work of social criticism. In the end, the prospect of a Huckleberry Finn for 2000 is left unfulfilled, and the parallels, which promised so much, remain just a device and an amusement.(...)4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.A very good young adult novel that deals with social issuesBy A CustomerAfter living largely unsupervised with her temperamental mother, Chloe Wilder feels as if she found paradise when she moves into the home of her grandparents. Though they constantly misinterpret Chloe's natural reticence and quietness for anger, her grandparents provide her material things, an allowance, and loving encouragement. On the other hand when the kind Mexican maid Sylvia begins to show her pregnancy, they toss her out, but not before checking to see if anything was stolen.Everything changes when "Soul Patch" abducts Chloe. It turns out that he is her mother's new husband because not long afterward, her mother's cursing as usual enters the dilapidated, filthy home. They keep Chloe locked away, but she manages to escape with her only hope to survive the mean streets being Sylvia.FINN: A NOVEL like its titled predecessor can be read on varying levels. It is an exciting young adult adventure tale with major social issues turning it into a thought-provoking adult-tale. Chloe with Sylvia as her guide falls from the elite radar screen into a lower class maelstrom where she learns much about class society in America from her experiences on the street. Matthew Olshan accomplishes quite a task blending social commentary that questions who really has "class" into an interesting adventure that never preaches only entertains.Harriet Klausner7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.Cool AND Surreal!By Chloe LeGendreIf it hadn't been for lunch, I would've finished FINN without a break this past Sunday. As it was, it took me just that single day to ride through this fast-paced, scenic series of unforgettable adventures. The waterfall scene, for example, was a peaceful and calming interlude smack in the midst of an underworld of grime and crime, and was, quite literally, a cool episode. Another superb scene was the one near the end with King D. What an odd but memorable environment that surreal character created for himself. And when James was steering Finn and Silvia around the debris of his life, I felt such a sense of immediacy that I wouldn't have been surprised to look up and see him right there in my living room, doing his street dancing between the chalk marks. Chloe Wilder, a fast-thinking and resourceful girl toughened up by a week of unanticipated exploits, still reminded me of many of my female friends. Though vulnerable, she desperately tried to hide her vulnerability. And, with that mask on, she brushed up against a rough world seemingly not far from her own fairly comfortable existence, but in fact a world away. FINN will appeal to teen readers -- male and female -- wherever jagged cities give way to seemingly smooth suburbs.See all 13 customer reviews... Huck Finn Controversy - homepages.wmich.edu The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn. Peaches Henry. Satire and Evasion: Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn 1992 LoudLit.org: Collection: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Author: Mark Twain; Performer: Marc Devine; Director: Warren Smith LiteralSystems; Engineer: Warren Smith LiteralSystems The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Metaphor Analysis ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Metaphor Analysis Free Study Guides and book notes including comprehensive chapter analysis complete summary analysis author ... Novel-T Literary T-Shirt Jerseys Welcome to Novel-T ... Novel-T literary t-shirt jerseys are the perfect way to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - shmoop.com Struggling with Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Check out our thorough summary and analysis of this literary masterpiece. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Wikipedia Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or in more recent editions The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain first published in the United Kingdom in ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Lit2Go ETC The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a first person narrative told by the title character Huckleberry Finn as he accompanies a runaway slave on his journey to freedom. Gone Girl (novel) - Wikipedia Gone Girl is a thriller novel by the writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel soon made the New York Times Best Seller ... SparkNotes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Important ... Explanation of the famous quotes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn including all important speeches comments quotations and monologues. SparkNotes: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes the SparkNotes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide has everything you need to ...
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