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Down the River with Huck and Jim II

Text: Rainer Kristuf
Arrangement: Rainer Kristuf
Musik: mit Unterstützung von Rainer Kristuf
#Musik #HuckleberryFinn #Country #SingerSongWriter

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Faking his death to escape his father , Huck Finn and runaway slave Jim sail the Mississippi on a raft. Their journey for freedom is a timeless critique of society. Explore Mark Twain’s masterpiece. #HuckleberryFinn #MarkTwain

https://paminy.com/summary-adventures-huckleberry-finn-mark-twain/

Faking his own death to escape his past, Huck Finn flees down the Mississippi on a raft. He's joined by Jim, a runaway slave, on a powerful journey for freedom that confronts the soul of a nation. Rediscover this classic adventure. #HuckleberryFinn #ClassicLit

https://paminy.com/book-summary-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/

I've read about half this list, though I wrote on #HuckleberryFinn in grad school -

What #books shaped you in #highschool? Here's what you said https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5468462/best-books-read-high-school

#memories #reading #amreading #writinginspiration #TBR

2 I was moved, in particular, by this passage which comes as the first-person narrator of the #novel, based on the #character “Jim” in #HuckleberryFinn, muses about an escaped slave narrative he’s reading: “I read how he had boarded a boat headed toward free states, toward …” 🧵 #books #Book #BookSky

Shelley Fisher Fishkin's new book, Jim, about Huck Finn's companion, just arrived from Yale University Press. A perfect companion to Percival Everett's acclaimed novel, James, and, of course, the original Huckleberry Finn by the esteemed Sam Clemens.

#books #livres #HuckleberryFinn #Classics #ClassicFiction #James #Jim #Percival Everett #MarkTwain #ShelleyFisherFishkin #YaleUniversityPress #bookstodon

"With Twain it seems more the case that we go on suspecting he hides some meaning, some message that we could probably use, behind the bushy eyebrows and mustache, but are less and less able to name or remember. He doesn’t quite haunt us." —John Jeremiah Sullivan for Harper's

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/twain-dreams-samuel-clemens-john-jeremiah-sullivan?src=longreads
#novels #MarkTwain #HuckleberryFinn #PercivalEverett

Mark #Twain
#MarkTwain #HuckleberryFinn #TomSawyer
#USA #Travel #Literature

https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Mark-Twain-Der-Erfinder-von-Tom-Sawyer-und-Huckleberry-Finn,audio33076.html

https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-mark-twain-der-erste-rockstar-der-literatur-100.html

pixelfed.social/p/jnzllwgr/8... . . . . #percevaleverett #james #nationalbookaward #slavery #slaves #adventure #marktwain #huckleberryfinn #ex_libris_jz

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#percevaleverett #james #nationalbookaward #slavery #slaves #adventure #marktwain #huckleberryfinn #ex_libris_jz

These need little introduction. The forward author noted that Tom Sawyer is a children’s/teen’s book while Huck Finn is more for adults. That lands in retrospect. Tom Sawyer is a Peter Pan type, always concocting extravagant conceits for imaginary play. I’ve been there, done that, and that’s part of childhood for sure. But I walked away despising his existence — mostly due the contrast of the character arcs in HF and the return of Tom at the end of that book. Both books are adventure novels. HF is also a coming of age story, wrestling with adulthood and all the temptations and bad things men have/do. Huck’s inner compass is what ultimately redeems him. But Tom’s return in the conclusion of HF invoked my disappointment and anger and it ultimately destroys the potential of the novel. Was this intentional? Was this a commentary on the upper societal castes’ remove from the daily struggles of the poor and enslaved? Huck’s capitulation to go with Tom’s plans means our ‘hero’ does not overcome the social order. Despite his ‘friendship’ with the slave, Jim, he’s still not empathetic enough to minimize that suffering. Has the culture indoctrinated him to believe poor people follow behind the affluent; does he believe no one will believe him? Is this the dark underlayment that makes the book great? Or is that an unintended reading and Twain is simply an unserious writer? I think if Twain was conscious of civil rights, he could have used Huck as a foil for Tom’s establishment complacency. But he doesn’t So to hell with Twain, really. A dark book, indeed.
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#marktwain #huckleberryfinn #tomsawyer #adventure #illinois #mississippi #slavery #fishing #graverobbing #impersonation #ex_libris_jz

#TIL Wikipedia tells us that "attempts to cultivate huckleberry plants [...] have failed".

I bet #MarkTwain knew that.

#HuckleberryFinn

What a little psychopath Tom Sawyer is! #HuckleberryFinn

Listening to JAMES (2024) - Percival Everett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_(novel)

#PercivalEverett #James #Novel #Libby #HuckleberryFinn #Library #PublicLibrary #Book #Audiobook

Cover of audiobook James, by Percival Everett. It has a black background. The title is in orange, tall and narrow sans-serif block letters. The letter J extends to the top, and shows vertical text A Novel in black block letters. In the curl of the J is an illustration of a person (we know them as Jim from Huckleberry Finn) carrying a sack on a stick over their shoulder (their face is obscured). Below the title is a blue horizontal rule. The author name appears next in small white block letters. The footer text is New York Times Bestseller in italicized blue block letters.

La maison de Mark Twain serait hantée
https://www.2tout2rien.fr/la-maison-de-mark-twain-serait-hantee/
#cigare #demeure #EdwardTuckermanPotter #fantôme #fille #gothique #hanté #HuckleberryFinn #maison #manoir #MarkTwain #meningite #SamuelClemens #Suzy #TomSawyer

Rezension zu "James" von Percival Everett - Eine mutige Neuinterpretation eines Klassikers https://www.lesering.de/id/4915787/Rezension-zu-James-von-Percival-Everett---Eine-mutige-Neuinterpretation-eines-Klassikers/ #Gegenwartsliteratur #PercivalEverett #HuckleberryFinn #Buchrezension #Buchrezension #HanserVerlag #Sklaverei #Literatur #MarkTwain #Freiheit #Roman #James

Hard working men /4 – Hillbilly highway https://www.carmillaonline.com/2024/09/04/unepica-proletaria-senza-rivoluzione-e-con-poco-dio/ #workingclassliterature #HuckleberryFinn #lineedelcolore #classeoperaia #Lottadiclasse #HarlanCounty #proletariato #WestVirginia #classemedia #Recensioni #JamesStill #Middletown #whitetrash #Appalachi #hillbilly #J.D.Vance #MarkTwain #Milwaukee #religione #RonHoward #Kentucky #NickCave #RustBelt #Chicago #redneck #lavoro #Ohio #WASP

1/2 One of my fav old family photos is this one of my husband’s granduncle Homer in 1910, age 8. I think of #HuckleberryFinn when I see it; coincidentally, Homer’s initials were also H.F. and he was born and raised in Missouri (though not in Hannibal. Born in tiny McKittrick, this was taken when he lived in Gasconade). Looks like he should be whittling, and as it happens he went to college in St. Louis on a woodworking scholarship but studied electrical engineering…
#genealogy #OldFamilyPhotos

A sepia-toned photo of 8-year old Homer in 1910, sitting in a caned rocking chair on the covered porch of a brick building, a closed, white double door with curtained windows behind him, and a window with closed shutters above a rustic wood bench to the right. He’s looking directly at the camera with a somewhat defiant expression, his elbows resting on his thighs and his hands loosely together in the space between his knees — it looks like he could be holding something, but if so it’s hidden in his loosely cupped palm(s). He’s wearing a country-ass hat cocked slightly back with its brim turned up; a light-colored, slightly frayed, short-sleeved buttoned shirt; short, dark plaid pants that end just below his knees, and is barefoot.

RR bridge over the Deerfield River, Florida, MA - July 2024.

#bridge #railroad #train #standByMe #huckleberryFinn #deerfieldRiver #photography #blackAndWhite #summer

Black and white full length photo of a young man standing on a railroad bridge, looking away from the camera. He is only wearing shorts and Crocs. He has a full head of light colored curly hair. His pose is relaxed with his arms hanging comfortably at his sides, his weight bearing more on his right leg, his left leg is bent somewhat, his shoulders are tipped slightly to the right. The bridge is constructed of wooden timbers. The background beyond is dense forest from the edge of the bridge to the top of the photo.

'James': Taika Waititi to Direct 'Huckleberry Finn' Feature; Steven Spielberg to Executive Produce!! #HuckleberryFinn, #TaikaWaititi, #StevenSpielberg, #James

https://movizark.com/2024/06/22/james-taika-waititi-to-direct-huckleberry-finn-feature-steven-spielberg-to-executive-produce/

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