《哈克贝利芬历险记》读书报告(英文)

1 I Introduction The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most famous works of Mark Twain It is a story about a white boy Huck who helps a black slave Jim to get rid of misery life He is so outright kind hearted and pure that shows big difference with the rigid and cruel society Huck wants for freedom and natural life and he isn t afraid to break the laws of society Huck has become the antihero in American literature Furthermore this kind of rebellion of spirit even has a realistic sense at present days II Development the body A An introduction to Mark Twain Mark Twain 1835 1910 whose real name is Samuel Langhorne is called the true father of American literature His boyhood memory on the Mississippi left a large influence on his future writing and his life experience gave him a wild knowledge of humanity He made a more extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature than previous writers had done In the meantime Twain works for realism In the thematic terms he deals largely with the lower class life of American society B An introduction to The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain s greatest book It is America s masterpiece that Hemingway notes all modern American literature comes The book is a success from its first publication in 1884 It is considered one of the greatest novels because it explores the racial and moral world of its time 2 The novel tells a story about a young boy s coming of age in Missouri around 1850 when racism in the United States was quite serious In other words it is a story of Huck s struggle to win freedom for himself and Jim a Negro slave The author writes from a boy s perspective and touches the hypocrisy and cruelty of an adult world C Rebelling hero image of Huckleberry Finn Huck the main character of the book is the disputable boy in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Having led a rough time in childhood Huck is uneducated rude mischievous and apt to play tricks and tell lies He is not used to following any rules for his life at about the age of thirteen However Huck is outgoing kind heaved pure clever and lovely Through all the adventures Huck learns a variety of life lessons He grows up and develops his conscience of humanity In the meantime his rebellion of sprit becomes mature from a little boy s natural disobedience to his revolt for social guidelines The little child is sick of all the confinement and civilization that traditional concept enforces upon him Though accepted by the Widow Douglas and into the community of St Petersburg he feels uncomfortable This point above proves that he dislikes the hypocrisy and cruelty in the adult world Besides He finds rules in civilized world illogical and unreasonable and even asks questions of religious principles if a body can get anything they pray for why don t Deacon Winn get back the money he lost on pork 1 15 To some extent as a wild child his 1 Twain Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Beijing Penguin Classics 2007 Chapter 3 3 disobedience to restrain from those adults is somewhat instinct and natural since almost everyone has a degree of rebellious psychology or behavior in their childhoods But unlike others Huck s rebellion is merely strong as he has been constantly oppressed by the world around him Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck is a hero He triumphs over society and follows his heart On the one hand Huck is a hero seeking his own freedom He wanted to escape from the civilized society One the other hand Huck s rebellion of sprit became mature from this journey The journey was a voyage of growth in reality and morality and a course of learning On the personal and social level he acquired knowledge and became a person of sound heart and with democratic ideals D The novel s influence Huck is the only child who can look into his heart for guidance Moral intuition is the basis on which his character rests This allows us compare him to adults who usually conform to the world around them and get used to the old ways The hero s rebellion also has its social significance It keeps people alert all the time equality is human being s common concern regardless of skin color or race In the meantime it raises a question of what is a civilized society It is obvious that a society that owns slaves is impossible to be just and even civilized Nowadays moral and racial problems in a society are continuously disturbing topic for people 4 III Conclusion Mark Twain depicts a rebelling hero Huckleberry Finn by praising his rebellious spirit in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which sets a new way of writing in the literary world