Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

When critics say that the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “changed the course of children’s literature” I have to agree. This book portrays boyhood in its most natural form. It shows society trying to shape the boy into something he is not and shows his struggle to remain real. Along with Huckleberry himself being very real in nature, so are the rest of the characters and that shows readers a time in which things differ from our day to day. Our natural world is almost gone for some of us while Huck’s adventures bring that natural world to life for us, along the Mississippi River. True, the book depicts a world which is no longer a part of our world, that makes it an historic tomb. I love this book and I feel like everyone needs to read this unending classic. 

"But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before."