Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn is a boy who lives in America. A widow adopts him but his drunk dad comes looking for him for his money. He takes Huck to a log cabin by the river. Huck finds a canoe and while his dad is gone, escapes. He found a black man on the island and they ran away together. As they go down the river they get to know diferent towns and things. They get split uo and Huck stops in a big house. The fanmily has a fight with another family and Huck gets his chance to run away. He finds Jim and as they were going two men came running up to them.A "king" and a "duke".
They went from town to town acting, making money and then getting kicked out.
They go to a house pretending to be lost brothers of a dead man and try conning the dead man's daughters. They take the money that the dead man left his daughters but Huck felt bad and stole it of them and hid it in the coffin.
The king and the duke then got found out as conmen and were asked about a mark on the man's body. So they went to look and found the money. Huck and one of the daughters came up with a plan and Huck went from the house and left the king and the duke to get arrested.
Then they found Jim and took him. Huck went to a nearby house and pretended he was their nephew. It turns out their real nephew was Tom Sawyer. Tom came and pretended to be a stranger. They found Jim in a shed and helped him escape.
"Sid" who was really Tom, gets hurt and tells aunt Sally that they helped set " the run-away nigger" free.
In the end Aunt Sally adopts Huck. He hates it.
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My Opinion

I really liked the book because of trhe adventures and the mischeif they get into. It's also funny. At first it was hard to understand because it is written in the way you would say it but then I got used to it. The only thing I didn't like was the end. It was a bit boring. It just says "my aunt is going to adopt me and try to civilize me. I hate it. I've been there before".
I would reccommend this book, and wouldn't mind reading another of Mark Twains books.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

William Shakespeare



"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak,--yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground;
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

William Shakespeare