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title:: Books/The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - icon:: 📖 tags:: #Books purchased:: Oct 22nd, 2022 start:: Oct 22nd, 2022 end:: Oct 28th, 2022 published:: 1885 length:: author:: @Mark Twain cover:: score:: SB, HB++ reading-time:: 🍅🍅 - Notes - Sequel to Tom Sawyer - Mississippi River - Pre civil war story. Questions prejudice around slavery - In the 1860s, Twain worked as a pilot on a Mississippi steamboat. The experience he gained there would feed into the sections in *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* that play on the Mississippi River. - *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* influenced many modern writers, including Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. - From https://www.getabstract.com/en/summary/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/32531 - Following the publication of *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* in 1876, Mark Twain started on its sequel, with Huckleberry Finn as the main character. Yet the novel didn’t pan out as planned. Unlike *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, *it took Twain seven years to finish *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*. In the end, the only elements left from its original draft were the main character and the location. The finished product turned out to be much darker than its prequel, tackling themes such as slavery, violence, abuse and bigotry. This darker side might have been one of the reasons why Twain put the novel aside for a while. Written toward the end of the difficult Reconstruction period, the book’s main themes were topical – and controversial. The pessimistic view of the world and society presented in the novel also reflects Twain’s general state of mind at the time: his wife was ill, his first son died in infancy and his financial ventures ended in disaster. Twain finished the draft of *Huckleberry Finn* in 1883, and it was printed and published one year later. - **Ernest Hemingway** said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain.” The novel proved inspirational for many other authors dealing with the themes of growing up and adolescents, including **J.D. Salinger’**s *The Catcher in the Rye *(1951) and **Jack Kerouac**’s *On the Road* (1957).