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14776618 No.14776618 [Reply] [Original]

Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn?

>> No.14776643

>>14776618
Tommy

>> No.14777966

>>14776618
Joan of Arc

>> No.14777988

>>14776618
One of those characters represents the pure, distilled manifestation of the American soul, the most profound truth about our identity as a nation ever captured on paper. If /lit/ reads it will know which

>> No.14777996

Nuck Figgs

>> No.14778209

>>14777988
It remains unmentioned for just that reason. HS through grad read it 4x for various classes; sometimes wonder what it would look like now.

>> No.14778341

I thought Huckleberry Finn was overrated. I read it last year. What is really funny is academics forcing themselves to forget the ending of the book when Huck doesn't learn shit and fucks around with Tom for the whole climax. My fellow students and teacher were seething that his ass learned absolutely nothing. Mark even warns you at the beginning of the book. I don't known what they expected from a literal retard character who gives his entire fortune away at the beginning. I guess the swindlers prove that the people they fool are scum anyway when they get back at the fellow townspeople for being marks. The novel seemed to be about how most people don't learn new values and how people are asking to be fucked for not willing to let things go. I guess the attempt the find meaning is a practice of insanity when Twain States that this book has no inherent meaning. People can't help themselves. All books have to be "analyzed" now.

>> No.14778356

>>14776618
>Twain was a Freemason. He belonged to Polar Star Lodge No. 79 A.F.&A.M., based in St. Louis. He was initiated an Entered Apprentice on May 22, 1861, passed to the degree of Fellow Craft on June 12, and raised to the degree of Master Mason on July 10.

>> No.14778375

>>14778341
yea tom is better he is cool and has a creative mind for shenanigans

>>14778356
so what?

>> No.14778408

>>14776618
Neither, both are Jewish freemason antiwhite propaganda

>> No.14778440

>>14778341
>when Twain states
That's irony masquerading as humility, anon. Not only did Twain know that it was his masterpiece but it became the archetype of 'the great American novel'

>> No.14778448

>>14778440
*meant prototype, not archetype

>> No.14778451

>>14777988
"Today's Tom Sawyer gets high on Jews."

>> No.14778464

>>14778451
insert 'he' between Sawyer and gets..

>> No.14778467

>>14778356
Being a Freemason was stupid common back then if you were a guy in America. Some were part of multiple secret societies like Odd Fellows too.

>> No.14778492

>>14778464
Well-spotted, my fellow autist.

>> No.14778527

>>14778440
Perhaps but I would love to see any evidence for this. Otherwise it is further cope that this book has any meaning whatsoever, which is exactly what people accuse modernist texts of being about: questioning the novel's need of meaning.

>> No.14778556

I've only read Tom Sawyer and haven't got to Huck Finn yet. It's a pretty funny book though.

>> No.14778720

>>14777988
Spoonfeed me the answer. I read Huck Finn when I was 10 and can barely remember it. Been meaning to read both but I'm busy with other books and school.
>>14776618
I read his book on Jeanne D'arc book last year. I loved it.

>> No.14779337

>>14778720
Not him, but Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn is a more satirical piece that addresses deeper issues, but is too cynical to take an honest look at and is less effective for it.