I wish I could say the end of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a surprise but, after reading the essay, I knew what was going to happen. Regardless, still an interesting ending.
"...and so there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and ain't agoing to no more."
For some strange reason, I love this quote. It doesn't exactly add much, or anything, to the overall story other than ending it. Yet I find it funny and highly original how Clemens uses the idea that it is Huck writing a book and not him. You didn't see that much in the literature of the time, or even now. Also, (since this is all I practically blog about with this novel) Clemens skill of using language is once again shown strongly, even in a short sentence. It's grammatically incorrect and almost makes me cringe while reading it, yet shows that as much as Huck may have grown throughout his adventure, he is still a boy and conncected to his "roots" and hadn't become too "sivilized".
"...because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before."
Sorry Ashley, not to use your same quote, but it ties in with my previous one. For all the growing or changing Huck may have done throughout his journey, he is still the boy who wants to go out an have adventures- not be tied down by rules and conventions. Having to be "sivilized" means not being able to explore which, possibly, gives him more of an education about the world than he would learn in a "sivilized" school.
Posted by VanessaKolberg at November 2, 2005 11:10 AM | TrackBackI really liked the way that Clemens used that quote in the end of the book to make it seem as though Huck was the one writing the book. That was a good way to add some humor to the ending of the book.
Posted by: Stacy at November 2, 2005 03:26 PM