Just once i want to write something like this and hand it in...

Nov 29, 2004 20:57

Authors have been writing stories for hundreds of years, with many different intentions. Some works of writing are used to persuade readers, while others serve as pure entertainment and contain no intentional symbolism. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, some believe that the main point is to examine the morality of society through the ironic thoughts and actions of a twelve-year-old boy. Michael Hoffman writes in “Huck’s Ironic Circle,” first published in The Subversive Vision: American Romanticism in Literature, that “the dynamic theme throughout Huckleberry Finn is the unresolved dialectic between the moral responsibility of the individual and the morality of the society in which he moves and against which he must function.” Hoffman is saying that the overall theme of the novel is a struggle between what Huck feels is right and what society dictates is right. This could be considered right or wrong. Personally, I don't give a shit either way. I hate this book with all my heart and all my soul, and have no desire to dwell on the deeper meanings of what Mark Twain was thinking when he subjected society to this piece of shit. Huck is an ignorant hick who doesn't know the difference between civilization and his own ass. Instead of faking his own death, I wish he had really killed himself, ending the book in the early chapters. That would have saved the world from hours of pain and misery. Unfortunately, we were not so lucky. Despite the book finally ending, we can not leave it for dead, and we must continue writing about it. Therefore, in closing, Huck Finn can kiss my ass and go to hell. The overall theme is one of torture and anguish. Lastly, I hope that those people who are offened by it manage to get it banned form the country, just to save those who come after us from the torment we were forced to go through.

If only i could really hand something like this in...
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