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Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (Summary + Analysis)
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2024
- A video essay summarising and analysing the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
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00:00 Mark Twain
02:42 Huckleberry Finn Summary
12:39 Analysis: Individual vs Society
16:15 Two Types of hero
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This book was mandatory on my English literature junior high school class, definitely grateful to read it during my teenage years.
I had the book Tom Sawyer when I was a young girl. I didn’t have many books but read that one like 3 times. Wish I had read Huck Finn, I probably would’ve loved the ending. Love your insights, and the different POV you have. It’s amazing that most of the story takes place on a flowing river, just that detail makes it seem like it’ll be a magnificent adventure.
River is the symbol of freedom here. Funny all major human civilizations were around rivers.
@@Fiction_Beast interesting, like the shackles of civilization are always erected to constrain that freedom at least symbolically...
If you're neighbors are criminals then like his mocking books on the end of the rope it planted
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Oh my God YESSS I love Huck Finn and all of Mark Twain’s stuff thank you my guy much love ❤️🙏
Thank you!
Love your work and enthusiasm. It's inspiring.
Thanks so much!
Thanks!
Wow, thank you so much for your support.
Thank you for the content. Always learn from your channel. It's just amazing the way you analyse novels.
Glad you like them!
Fiction Beast, I haven't been getting notifications from your channel for some reason. I was sitting down figuring out what to watch on YT and I thought of you and wondered if you hadn't been uploading...so I came over to take a peek. I'm looking at all the videos I now get to catch up on and I'm jazzed. I LOVE the way you present information and I also like that your videos are longer because to talk deeply about classics is the ONLY way and that takes some time. Honestly, I could listen to you for hours talking about classics, esp Russian ones. Btw, I just finished Huckleberry Finn for the 4th time about 2 weeks ago and I'm excited to see what you have to say about it.
Yes RUclips algo is mysterious. But thanks for thinking of my channel. Get the notification bell going. That’s reliable.
Your channel is just pure gold mate!!!! Thanks very much!
Thank you!
Best explanation on internet
Great video sir
Great analysis M! This is the novel in which Twain captured the voice and the feel of America, the real America and that is how he kick started American literature! Great video, thanks again. More Twain please!
Glad you enjoyed it!
In the Mysterious Stranger, after 40 odd efforts and 3 great personal tragedies Sam nails his feelings about life and the human race. And in the last 20 years from Huck onwards you sense him distilling out the key elements of life, after all the struggle, pain and suffering - what is it all about? More than any American writer, he reveals what's really in his heart and what is in his heart is kindness and a yearning for a kinder human race.
Thank you. i will check the Mysterious Stranger out.
Bless you Sir
Love your videos. I just got thru reading the book for the third time. I agree about the ending with the reintroduction of Tom Sawyer. It seems forced. I wanted to point out that there was another type of hero at the end of the novel and perhaps the greatest one of all of them. The hero is the slave Jim and he sacrifices his own freedom(his life) in order to save Tom when he gets him to the doctor after he has been shot.
Hi! Some of my favorite authors (books)I think you should make videos about:
Thomas Hardy- Jude the Obscure (naturalist view of life, deeply nihilistic without ever compromising an entertaining read.)
Chekhov- Collected Short Stories (truly he has the most fascinating philosophy/style which arguable is most influential. The best of the Russians in my opinion.)
Maupassant- Alien Hearts (something of a response to Madame Bovary)
Rilke- Dulino Elegies and Letters to a Young Poet both create a great summary of his philosophy. Although the letters are most talked about, I view his poem as the greatest poem every written.
Good suggestions. I love Hardy and Chekhov. I'm not too familiar with Rilke.
@@Fiction_Beast If you haven’t read “If Only We Could Know: An Interpretation of Chekhov,” I definitely recommend it. It clearly illustrates the intricacies of how his style was molded by his world view. As for Rilke, Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Duino Elegies is a must read.
The young adolescent Huck was representative of the young, adolescent United States. As Huck's moral compass became more fine-tuned due to his evolving consideration of Jim as a complex human being so the US grew ethically (albeit slowly) through the early abolitionists' denouncement of slavery until its end after the Civil War.
Great point!
@@Fiction_Beast I enjoyed your explication of the book. Your emphasis on Huck using his own observations and ultimately discarding his society’s and church’s morals in regards to Jim’s humanity is in essence the greatness of the novel. You might be interested in some collections of later Mark Twain writings- “Letters From The Earth “ and “A Pen Warmed Up In Hell” are two that I can recommend.
Yes a perfect summary!
@@BrightGarlick Thank you!
How did Huck think helping Jim was against the church?
Jim was someone's property, therefore helping him escape was a sin.
@@Fiction_Beast, except slaves had rights in cuneiform as they would take their owners to court and win settlements in writing which we can read today. This brand of slavery we think of began with Islam and any man (even a Christian) doing the new brand of slavery from Islam is worthy of death per the Bible. "Stealing a man (person) whether selling or attaining, they surely must die." - Exodus 21:16
Quakers and Methodists were fighting and dying to make blacks free even before the new world broke from the British Empire and blacks were free and able to vote in the North and even women could vote in two out of 13 states at the beginning of the nation.
There is three possibilities for slavery allowed in the Bible: (1) War reparations, (2) indentured service, or (3) the purchasing of a family member out of slavery.
(1) The conquered nation must pay their war reparations,
(2) people need jobs when they are in need,
(3) family members should work to return the loss of the payment for the benefit of those who are losing inheritance due to the payment out of slavery.
In all three cases refusal to work would be worthy of strong aversive punishment to induce work. Why? (3) Because if my brother pays to get me out of slavery then shame on me for not working to restore my nephews' inheritance. (2) Because if my brother offers to feed my wife and kids during tough times then shame on me if upon good times I refuse to finish the seven years of work because I would rather seek my best interests. (1) Because if your father slew those who give you a home and food, then you are disrespecting the dead, and the mercy you received to be allowed to live.
In the end, I agree with you that an illiterate Huckleberry Finn would be an ignorant fool in regards to the Scriptures of the church. Did it actually state he feared sinning per the church in the text. It has been so long since I read the book.
I like "Tom Sawyer" better than "Huckleberry Finn."
18:40 -- I think you missed the point. On the surface Jim's conclusion is nonsense. But in terms of logic Jim's thinking is sound, his only fault is being uneducated.
If a book is banned in this day and age, then I want to read it over and over and over again. I don't mind foul language because it was actually used in a time different from ours. Why can't people see past their noses? Literature shouldn't necessarily make us feel comfortable at all times...I like to be challenged and I love to take a peek into another time and place than my own. The ignorance, wokeness(I hate that word) of people in modern times is staggering and I don't think we are better off because of it. I'd argue the opposite, actually. I think the only SJW that I have any respect for is Huckleberry(I like how you called him and SJW). This was a great video about a brilliant book.
so you want to read 213 n-word okay…
Arggh, the ending is not terrible it is a continuation of the satire. It is a perfect ending for the story simply because it is on the face of it, really dumb.
How is the ending terrible if it ends in abolishing
Huckleberry the poor boy does the hard work but Tom Sawyer the smart guy steals the show. That ending is bad. A little too Hollywood.
@@Fiction_Beast i guess it's open to interpretation
Going to Cairo to escape racism?
Twain has never actually been there has he?
Huckleberry Finn is a classic and a great book, but it's not the greatest american novel, that title belongs to Moby Dick--so,, sorry, Hemingway, all american literature comes from Melville
Moby Dick is overrated, full of turgid, overwrought prose. Huckleberry Finn is far superior.
@@deirdre108 Whatever you say, man
@@jojodogface898 I just finished Moby Dick a few months back. I love how intensely fate, and chaos play into the story. However the book could’ve been condensed as I really didn’t need a whole chapter on ropes. From what I understood Melville wrote this with Sailors in mind.
I get it though. After reading MOby Dick my perceptions on the world changed a bit.
@@deirdre108 I’m 5 chapters in and so far it’s amazing.😊
@@gracefitzgerald2227 Is that 5 chapters into Huck Finn? If so, you're in for a great ride.
Bad articulation