The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain. (2)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1884
New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.
1982

Some sample ideas from the novel:

"Notice: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author." "She [Miss Watson] said all a body would have to do there [in Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever...didn't think much of it...." Huck: "...the wind was trying to whisper something to me and I couldn't make out what it was." "There was a place on my ankle that got to itching; but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders...like I'd die if I couldn't scratch...was itching in eleven different places now."

"Pap was agoing on so, he never noticed where his old limber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork, and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language...." "Pap hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holdin' first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick, but it wasn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; and down he went in the dirt and rolled there, and held his toe, and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous."

"Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late--you know what I mean--I don't know the words to put it in." "The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine...." "And how far a body can hear on the water such nights...heard people talking at the ferry landing...heard what they said, too, every word of it." Jim: "...en I hear ole missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn' want to, but she could git eight hundid dollars for me, en it 'uz such a big stack o' money she couldn' resis'."

Huck: "...and then a perfect ripper of a gust would follow along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next...fst! it was as bright as glory and you'd have a little glimpse of tree-tops a-lunging about, away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash and then go rumbling, grumbling, tumbling down the sky...like rolling empty barrels down stairs..."

Quote: Huck: "...so there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotton glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and ain't agoing to no more."

Quote: Huck: "But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before."