Despite the controversary surrounding this classic novel, the themes are most relevant to life today.
First published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and then in the U.S. in 1885, Huck Finn is considered one of the great American novels. It is told in first person by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels.
It’s set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about 20 years before. Some might suggest that the embedded racism exists today.
The river? It carries both Jim and Huck to freedom by exploring time before the river, on the river and after.
