Post 1: Huck Finn Response (Ch. 1- Ch. 12)

So the book started off with Huck Finn living with widow Douglas. He ends up running away from her and then goes back to live with her. Only when he returns, his pap is sitting in his bedroom. His pap goes to the judge and demands that he can have his son back to Huck is forced to go and live with his pap again. While he's living there, his pap locks him up in the house and one day he manages to escape and cuts up a pig to make it look like he was killed by robbers. When in reality, he really runs away to Johnson Island and finds a runaway African American named Jim and they become friends.

This book is okay so far. The beginning was sort of boring for me but it's getting better. I like how the chapters are short but big things happen in them. I don't like how the author writes the same way as Jim would talk. Like, he doesn't spell things the right way. It takes me a while to read that and understand it when I'd rather just be able to read it and understand it right away. I think its similar to Of Mice And Men cause its a story of a friendship, even though George and Lennie have been friends for a longer time. In of mice and men, Lennie has the disability of being slow. In Huck Finn, Jim is African American and even though that's not a disability, African Americans were treated with less respect than a white man was.