First off, I just really did not enjoy this book. It was too scattered and too much going on for me that it made me really confused. The ending of the book disapointed me too. I think that it would have been better to have let Tom, Huck and Jim get away and just start sailing down the river to be free again. That is just how I would have ended it.
A part about adolescence that did strike me as interesting was when they had to make it difficult and just like "other people" in books or movies to get Jim free. They had to use small spoons that would take them years, and write a letter to make it interesting. I think that is a good example of adolescence because young kids are always imitating others and trying to be so much like other people. For boys, it did seem common for them to want it to be difficult and not so easy to just do it a way that would be clean and unnoticeable. Boys always like a challenge and don't want to seem like a sissy. Just like how Tom said that Jim needed rats and snakes and spiders.
Learning in the Age of the Trigger Warning
11 years ago
That is too bad you couldn't get into this book, hey I guess it is not for everyone. The ending of the book did come up in like two sentences. It could of had a little more spice to it but all I cared about is that Jim got away alive and free. I never thought about it but you are right, it is just like a boy to make things difficult and go the long and hard way threw things. That is part of the book I too couldnt stand, Tom going on forever what they need to do before they run away. I just wanted them to sneak away the first night. If you stop and think the book would really be never ending to his audience because the adventures on the rafts were the main and to me the best part. Twain needed to end it offically. One could say Twain did, because all the characters got what they wanted and there was a happy ending.
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