"Huckleberry Finn" nitpick
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Brains_N_Boobs
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Why would anyone ever let reality spoil a good story?
12oclocktales
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From Chapter VIII; Jim explains why:
“I’d made up my mind ‘bout what I’s agwyne to do. You see ef I kep’ on tryin’ to git away afoot, de dogs ‘ud track me; ef I stole a skift to cross over, dey’d miss dat skift, you see, en dey’d know ‘bout what I’d lan’ on de yuther side en whah to pick up my track. So I says a raff is what I’s arter; it doan make no track.”
In other words, they would have tracked him in Illinois anyway.
“I’d made up my mind ‘bout what I’s agwyne to do. You see ef I kep’ on tryin’ to git away afoot, de dogs ‘ud track me; ef I stole a skift to cross over, dey’d miss dat skift, you see, en dey’d know ‘bout what I’d lan’ on de yuther side en whah to pick up my track. So I says a raff is what I’s arter; it doan make no track.”
In other words, they would have tracked him in Illinois anyway.
Saint_Ann
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Beats me. I read it 50+ years ago.
lovecraft68
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Maybe 42 or so for me. Still get it mixed up with Tom Sawyer.Beats me. I read it 50+ years ago.
Which one had the con artists who put on the 'show' of them prancing around naked?
That was Huckleberry Finn.
I never saw the point of Catcher. Nothing really HAPPENS, it's all just Holden's interior monologue.
I like well-wrought tale fiction, not slice-of-life fiction.
Rainblow
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I get it, it's a dialogue driven loss of innocence novel. Not everyone's cup of tea.
