Nate
This was a very creative and enlightening look at the Huckleberry Finn story from the viewpoint of Jim (I will think of him as James from now on). I had trouble reconciling the advanced learning of Jim and some of the events which did not completely align with the events/plot of the original Huckleberry Finn (which I read before this as preparation). After suspending my nerd brain from trying to make things line up perfectly, I found myself lost in the story as a new one instead of a different interpretation of an existing one. Being a white male in today’s world, I don’t know if I have the experience, the understanding, or the right to make any kind of judgement about the contents, the themes, or the complicated and intense issues involved. The story moved me. In my opinion, this should be required reading in school. It can sometimes be a tough thing to read what people have done to each other in the name of greed or normalcy or just because they can.
This was a very creative and enlightening look at the Huckleberry Finn story from the viewpoint of Jim (I will think of him as James from now on). I had trouble reconciling the advanced learning of Jim and some of the events which did not completely align with the events/plot of the original Huckleberry Finn (which I read before this as preparation). After suspending my nerd brain from trying to make things line up perfectly, I found myself lost in the story as a new one instead of a different interpretation of an existing one. Being a white male in today’s world, I don’t know if I have the experience, the understanding, or the right to make any kind of judgement about the contents, the themes, or the complicated and intense issues involved. The story moved me. In my opinion, this should be required reading in school. It can sometimes be a tough thing to read what people have done to each other in the name of greed or normalcy or just because they can.