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"Carnival Corporation & Plc", is that a UK subsidiary?--[[User:Jerryseinfeld|Jerryseinfeld]] 00:19, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
| name = Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
*No it's a [[dual listed company]]. [[User:Carina22|Carina22]] 5 July 2005 03:21 (UTC)
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| image_caption = On the Raft
| author = [[Mark Twain]]
| illustrator = [[E. W. Kemble]]
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| country = [[United States]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| genre = [[Adventure novel|Adventure]]<br>[[Humour]]<!-- [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Novel categorization]] -->
| publisher = Charles L. Webster And Company
| release_date = [[1884 in literature|1884]]
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]])
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| preceded_by = [[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]
| followed_by = [[Tom Sawyer Abroad]]
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== Merger and the Surviving Corporate Name==
[[Image:Mark_twain2.JPG|frame|250px|right|Mark Twain]]
In regards to a statement made in [[Carnival Corporation & Plc]] by [[User:Carina22]] stating that Carnival Corporation & Plc was formerly known as P&O Princess is incorrect! Carnival Corporation was a separate independently operated cruise line owned by Micky Arison and his family for nearly 40 years and P&O Princess was a United Kingdom publicly traded cruise line to which Mr. Arison and his family had absolutely '''NO''' affiliation with until the Carnival-P&O Princess merger occurred. So basically after the merger was completed P&O Princess became a subsidary of Carnival and the P&O name was dropped in favor of the Carnival name but the way you wrote it, it made it look like Carnival was always called P&O Princess which as stated before is an incorrect statement to make. [[User:Misterrick]] 05:10, 05 July 2005 (UTC).
'''''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''''' ([[1884 in literature|1884]]) by [[Mark Twain]] (Samuel Clemens) is commonly accounted as one of the first [[Great American Novel]]s. It was also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Realism or the vernacular, or common speech, being told in the first person by the [[eponym]]ous [[List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series|Huckleberry "Huck" Finn]], best friend of [[Tom Sawyer]] (hero of three other Mark Twain books). The book was first published in 1884.
:No it isn't a subsidiary, it is a [[dual listed company]]. This is an unusual arrangement, so read the article if you don't know what it means. So far as I know Carnival is the only major "American" dual listed company, but we have several in the UK so we are more familiar with the concept. [[User:Carina22|Carina22]] 06:37, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Again, In accurate statements being made by [[User:Carina22|Carina22]]. Yes, P&O Princess did become a subsidary under the new dual listed company and again Carnival was never formerly known as P&O Princess, As stated before P&O Princess was a separate company that mergered with Carnival, In fact Carnival was started 40 years before Princess even existed so how can Carnival have been formerly known as P&O Princess when P&O Princess didn't even exist when Carnival was first started by Micky Arison's father? Additionally on the Carnival Corporation & Plc website it states, "On April 17, 2003, Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) and P&O Princess Cruises plc (LSE: POC) merged via a dual listed company structure (DLC). Subsequently, P&O Princess Cruises plc has changed its name to Carnival plc." so there is no way that Carnival could ever have been formerly known as P&O Princess. [[User:Misterrick|Misterrick]] 19:52, 12 July 2005 (UTC).
The book is noted for its innocent young protagonist, its colorful description of people and places along the [[Mississippi River]], and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly [[racism]], of the time. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway [[slavery|slave]], down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of [[escape]] and [[Freedom (philosophy)|freedom]] in all of [[American literature]].
::No, Carnival '''plc''' ''was'' formerly P&O Princess Cruises. The problem is that you still don't understand what a [[dual listed company]] is. The quotation you give does '''not''' state or imply that P&O Princess Cruises plc became a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, because it didn't. They both became holding companies of a dual listed company. Carnival Corporation was never called P&O Princess, but Carnival '''Plc''' was. This is possible because Carnival Corporation and Carnival Plc are '''two''' ''separate'', independently quoted companies. Carnival plc is the '''same''' legal entity as P&O Princess Cruises with the same shareholder body but a different name, just the same as if Ford changed its name to Detroit Motors it would be the same legal entity with the same shareholder body. The only difference is that now Carnival Plc is one of the two holding companies of Carnival Corporation & Plc. Corporation and Plc are '''two''' companies with separate shareholder bodies and ''neither owns the other'', which is a what being a [[dual listed company]] is about.
::Deleting a paragraph and marking that as a minor edit is not appropriate.
::And finally P&O is a lot older than Carnival Corporation. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company was founded in 1837, and P&O Princess Cruises demerged from it on 23 October 2000.[[User:Carina22|Carina22]] 09:46, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
You know Carina22, I'll let you have it because your being such an a--hole, I do know what a dual listed company is but you can't get it through your head what I am trying to tell you and by the way P&O doesn't stand for Princess and Orient, it's Pacific and Orient and P&O didn't found Princess they acquired it in the 60s or 70s so Carnival Cruise Lines is older. [[User:Misterrick|Misterrick]] 21:15, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Although the book has been popular with young readers since its publication, and taken as a sequel to the comparatively innocuous ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' (which had no particular social message), it has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. Although the [[Southern United States|Southern]] society it [[satire|satirized]] was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book immediately became controversial, and has remained so to this day (see "[[#Controversy|Controversy]]" below).
In January 2007, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine placed the book fifth in their list of The 10 Greatest Books of All Time.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html</ref>
I have to disagree with Carina22 on this one as well. This demerger thing is giving me a headache.
==Plot introduction==
From what I understand using my own knowledge:
Based in the mid 1800s before the [[American_civil_war | Civil War]], the novel chronicles the adventures of and relationship between Huckleberry Finn and the runaway slave Jim, as they flee south on the [[Mississippi River]]. During that journey, the pair have a series of adventures that bring them closer together and expose them to the flaws in Southern culture.
*Carnival Cruise Lines is formed by Arison
*P&O Princess Cruises is formed later by P&O
*Carnival Corp/PLC is formed after Carnival gobbles up a bunch of other cruise lines. The Corp/PLC puts all of the lines (Carnival/HAL/Costa) under one umbrella)
*Princess Cruises demerges from the main P&O and becomes it's own company dealing only with cruises (The company has several cruise brands under its umbrella)
*Carnival and Princess merge, or perhaps Princess is bought out. Anyway, Princess becomes another cruise brand under the umbrella of Carnival Corp/PLC
I don't think Carnival was ever called P&O BEFORE the two companies merged. They had no relations with each other until the merger.
==Explanation of the novel's title==
Twain initially conceived of the work as a companion to ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' that would follow Huck Finn through adulthood. Beginning with a chapter he had deleted from the earlier novel, Twain began work on a manuscript he originally titled ''Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography.'' Twain worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood. Upon completion, the novel's title closely paralleled its predecessor's: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)" <ref name=AnnotatedTitle>{{cite book |last=Twain |first=Mark |authorlink=Mark Twain |others=introduction and annotations by [[Michael Patrick Hearn]] |title=The Annotated Huckleberry Finn |date=2001-10-01 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |id=ISBN 0-393-02039-8 |pages=xiv-xvii, xxix |chapter=Introduction}}</ref>
Here is the company history website: [[http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=200767&p=irol-history]]
Unlike ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'', Twain's ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' does not have the definite article "the" as a part of its proper title. Writer Philip Young has hypothesized that this absence represents the fundamentally uncompleted nature of Huck's adventures -- while Tom's adventures were completed (at least at the time) at the end of his novel, Huck's narrative ends with his stated intention to head West.<ref name=Young>{{cite book |last=Young |first=Philip |title=Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration |date=1966-12-01 |publisher=Penn State Press |id=ISBN 0-271-02092-X |pages=212}}</ref>
*It says that in 2003, Carnival Corp (including brands Carnival/HAL etc) merged with P&O Princess Cruises plc (consisting of Princess, P&O, and AIDA cruises). Perhaps the names were merged to become Carnival Corporation & plc
After further research, I found this confusing text from cruisecritic.com about Princess:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens by familiarizing us with the events of the novel that preceded it, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both novels are set in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, which lies on the banks of the Mississippi River. At the end of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, a poor boy with a drunken bum for a father, and his friend Tom Sawyer, a middle-class boy with an imagination too active for his own good, found a robber’s stash of gold. As a result of his adventure, Huck gained quite a bit of money, which the bank held for him in trust. Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind but stifling woman who lives with her sister, the self-righteous Miss Watson.
*Princess is now part of the industry's giant Carnival Corporation a move that occurred when Carnival acquired the cruise line's parent company -- U.K.-based P&O Cruises.
As Huckleberry Finn opens, Huck is none too thrilled with his new life of cleanliness, manners, church, and school. However, he sticks it out at the bequest of Tom Sawyer, who tells him that in order to take part in Tom’s new “robbers’ gang,” Huck must stay “respectable.” All is well and good until Huck’s brutish, drunken father, Pap, reappears in town and demands Huck’s money. The local judge, Judge Thatcher, and the Widow try to get legal custody of Huck, but another well-intentioned new judge in town believes in the rights of Huck’s natural father and even takes the old drunk into his own home in an attempt to reform him. This effort fails miserably, and Pap soon returns to his old ways. He hangs around town for several months, harassing his son, who in the meantime has learned to read and to tolerate the Widow’s attempts to improve him. Finally, outraged when the Widow Douglas warns him to stay away from her house, Pap kidnaps Huck and holds him in a cabin across the river from St. Petersburg.
Whenever Pap goes out, he locks Huck in the cabin, and when he returns home drunk, he beats the boy. Tired of his confinement and fearing the beatings will worsen, Huck escapes from Pap by faking his own death, killing a pig and spreading its blood all over the cabin. Hiding on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River, Huck watches the townspeople search the river for his body. After a few days on the island, he encounters Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a plantation down the river, where he would be treated horribly and separated from his wife and children. Huck and Jim team up, despite Huck’s uncertainty about the legality or morality of helping a runaway slave. While they camp out on the island, a great storm causes the Mississippi to flood. Huck and Jim spy a log raft and a house floating past the island. They capture the raft and loot the house, finding in it the body of a man who has been shot. Jim refuses to let Huck see the dead man’s face.
Although the island is blissful, Huck and Jim are forced to leave after Huck learns from a woman onshore that her husband has seen smoke coming from the island and believes that Jim is hiding out there. Huck also learns that a reward has been offered for Jim’s capture. Huck and Jim start downriver on the raft, intending to leave it at the mouth of the Ohio River and proceed up that river by steamboat to the free states, where slavery is prohibited. Several days’ travel takes them past St. Louis, and they have a close encounter with a gang of robbers on a wrecked steamboat. They manage to escape with the robbers’ loot.
During a night of thick fog, Huck and Jim miss the mouth of the Ohio and encounter a group of men looking for escaped slaves. Huck has a brief moral crisis about concealing stolen “property”—Jim, after all, belongs to Miss Watson—but then lies to the men and tells them that his father is on the raft suffering from smallpox. Terrified of the disease, the men give Huck money and hurry away. Unable to backtrack to the mouth of the Ohio, Huck and Jim continue downriver. The next night, a steamboat slams into their raft, and Huck and Jim are separated.
Huck ends up in the home of the kindly Grangerfords, a family of Southern aristocrats locked in a bitter and silly feud with a neighboring clan, the Shepherdsons. The elopement of a Grangerford daughter with a Shepherdson son leads to a gun battle in which many in the families are killed. While Huck is caught up in the feud, Jim shows up with the repaired raft. Huck hurries to Jim’s hiding place, and they take off down the river.
A few days later, Huck and Jim rescue a pair of men who are being pursued by armed bandits. The men, clearly con artists, claim to be a displaced English duke (the duke) and the long-lost heir to the French throne (the dauphin). Powerless to tell two white adults to leave, Huck and Jim continue down the river with the pair of “aristocrats.” The duke and the dauphin pull several scams in the small towns along the river. Coming into one town, they hear the story of a man, Peter Wilks, who has recently died and left much of his inheritance to his two brothers, who should be arriving from England any day. The duke and the dauphin enter the town pretending to be Wilks’s brothers. Wilks’s three nieces welcome the con men and quickly set about liquidating the estate. A few townspeople become skeptical, and Huck, who grows to admire the Wilks sisters, decides to thwart the scam. He steals the dead Peter Wilks’s gold from the duke and the dauphin but is forced to stash it in Wilks’s coffin. Huck then reveals all to the eldest Wilks sister, Mary Jane. Huck’s plan for exposing the duke and the dauphin is about to unfold when Wilks’s real brothers arrive from England. The angry townspeople hold both sets of Wilks claimants, and the duke and the dauphin just barely escape in the ensuing confusion. Fortunately for the sisters, the gold is found. Unfortunately for Huck and Jim, the duke and the dauphin make it back to the raft just as Huck and Jim are pushing off.
After a few more small scams, the duke and dauphin commit their worst crime yet: they sell Jim to a local farmer, telling him Jim is a runaway for whom a large reward is being offered. Huck finds out where Jim is being held and resolves to free him. At the house where Jim is a prisoner, a woman greets Huck excitedly and calls him “Tom.” As Huck quickly discovers, the people holding Jim are none other than Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle, Silas and Sally Phelps. The Phelpses mistake Huck for Tom, who is due to arrive for a visit, and Huck goes along with their mistake. He intercepts Tom between the Phelps house and the steamboat dock, and Tom pretends to be his own younger brother, Sid.
Tom hatches a wild plan to free Jim, adding all sorts of unnecessary obstacles even though Jim is only lightly secured. Huck is sure Tom’s plan will get them all killed, but he complies nonetheless. After a seeming eternity of pointless preparation, during which the boys ransack the Phelps’s house and make Aunt Sally miserable, they put the plan into action. Jim is freed, but a pursuer shoots Tom in the leg. Huck is forced to get a doctor, and Jim sacrifices his freedom to nurse Tom. All are returned to the Phelps’s house, where Jim ends up back in chains.
When Tom wakes the next morning, he reveals that Jim has actually been a free man all along, as Miss Watson, who made a provision in her will to free Jim, died two months earlier. Tom had planned the entire escape idea all as a game and had intended to pay Jim for his troubles. Tom’s Aunt Polly then shows up, identifying “Tom” and “Sid” as Huck and Tom. Jim tells Huck, who fears for his future—particularly that his father might reappear—that the body they found on the floating house off Jackson’s Island had been Pap’s. Aunt Sally then steps in and offers to adopt Huck, but Huck, who has had enough “sivilizing,” announces his plan to set out for the West.
And regarding P&O Cruises ...
==Major themes==
*It acquired Los Angeles-based Princess Cruises in 1974 and Sitmar Cruises in 1988, which P&O chose to merge. Even more expansion followed for its Princess Cruises subsidiary. In October 2000, the company underwent another major change: P&O's parent company was acquired by Carnival Corporation and is now known as P&O Princess.
Family is one of the most important themes in the book. The attempt by Huck's father to gain custody of him in order to steal the money that Huck and Tom had found in the previous book precipitates his flight, Huck stages his own murder to get away. One of the major plot devices in the book is Jim's hiding the death of Huck's father from him. As they travel the river, Huck is frequently involved with families who attempt to adopt him.
And Taken from P&O Cruises' website:
Another theme is the life on the [[Mississippi River]], alternately idyllic and threatening. In true [[Picaresque novel|picaresque]] fashion, Huck and Jim encounter all the varieties of humanity as they travel: murderers, thieves, [[Confidence trick|confidence men]], good people and [[Hypocrisy|hypocrite]]s.
*In April 2004 P&O Princess plc, the parent company of P&O Cruises, joined together with Carnival Corporation, bringing together two of the best known and most successful organisations in the cruise industry. Already Britain’s market leading cruise company, P&O Cruises is now part of one of the world’s largest leisure travel companies.
*P&O Princess Cruises demerged from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company on 23 October 2000 when it started trading as an independent company on the London and New York Stock Exchanges. Carnival Plc is now the third largest cruise company in the world by revenue
In the middle of the story, Mark Twain comments on the irrationality of pride and honor, as Huck sees brutal, cold-blooded murders committed by two feuding families. Later on, a Southern [[aristocracy|aristocrat]] coldly kills a drunken man who has been yelling empty threats at him, and the village turns the incident into a sort of circus, ignoring the dead man's daughter while trying to start a [[lynching|lynch mob]], which quickly disintegrates after being mocked by the murderer himself. The "Dauphin" and the "Duke", two seemingly-innocuous (in some ways) confidence men are infamous characters of the novel who attempt to con three orphaned girls out of their late father's life savings. Towards the end of the book, they are [[Tarring and feathering|tarred and feathered]], and carried out of town on a rail, symbolizing how equally or more evil a village of people can be, given the magnitude of the response relative to that of the suspected crime.
'''In conclusion,''' I'm totally confused!
Much of the section detailing the [[feud]] between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons can be interpreted as an attack on exaggerated or melodramatic [[romanticism]]. The poem "Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots" by Emmeline Grangerford, two-thirds of which details what Stephen Dowling Bots did not die of, is an example. The whole Grangerford parlor was filled with [[kitsch]]. Also, Emmeline Gragerford's paintings, which had titles that all ended in "Alas", were also a parody of this. Emmeline Grangerford was modeled after [[Julia A. Moore]], a notoriously bad poet known as "The Sweet Singer of Michigan".
==Ships==
It is commonly said that the beginning and ending of the book, the parts in which Tom Sawyer appears as a character, detract from its overall impact. Others feel Tom serves to start the story off and to bring it to a conclusion, and that Tom's ridiculous schemes have the [[paradox]]ical effect of providing a framework of 'reality' around the mythical river voyage. Much of the boyhood innocence and romantic depictions of nature occur in the first sixteen chapters and the last five, while the middle of the story shows the harsh realities of [[antebellum]] society.
you listed historic cunard ships like RMS Queen Elizabeth 1940 and old Carpathia under Carnival Corp. ships. What's that? It's wrong!
QE 2 and QM 2 are okay. 10:01, July,29th 2005 DEF
:I'd argue that since Cunard is now a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, that these were correctly placed. As would RMS Titanic for example. However it would have to be properly noted. [[User:JonEastham|JonEastham]] 15:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Another theme is Huck's gradual acceptance of Jim as a man, strong, brave, generous, and wise (though realistically portrayed as imperfect).
So, how come I can't get to a P&O Cruises (Australia) or a P&O Cruises (UK) page where I would find info on the ships Pacific Sky, Pacific Star, Pacific Sun or Arcadia, Artemis, Aurora, Oceana, Oriana and soon Ventura? Where is all this located? Because when I search for P&O Cruises, I'm basically told it doesn't exist, when it does. --[[User:Eeclwa|Eeclwa]] 21:56, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Its themes on [[religion]] are almost as strong as its race theme. Huck himself comes across as religious but having trouble believing in [[God]]: although he tries to pray, he finds it to be a waste of time. Later in the book, he encounters the dilemma of whether or not to steal Jim out of slavery; he is forced to reckon with the fact that, according to his society, helping a slave escape will condemn him to [[Hell]]. His famous quote "All right, then, I'll GO to hell", is a direct attack by Twain on the religious support of slavery in the U.S. Huck comes across as one of the most unbiased, open-minded characters of popular literature as he continually questions his own motivation and life in general throughout the book. While he may not be pious, he does have a strong sense of right and wrong and often acts out of moral conviction.
In another amusing commentary on 19th century society, Twain includes the "Dauphin" character, a deluded, unemployed drunkard who insists upon being addressed as "Your Majesty" and claims to be the "Lost Dauphin", the long-lost son of [[Louis XVI]] and Queen [[Marie-Antoinette]], who were both executed by French republicans in 1793. Their son, [[Louis XVII]], actually died in a republican jail in 1795, but many pretenders appeared all over the world claiming to have been the young boy-king of [[France]]. By the middle of the century their claims were becoming increasingly absurd and unbelievable.
I agree that P&O cruises should have it's own page, Carnival may own P&O, but it owns Princess to and they have their own page (incidentally P&O took over Princess before both brands were taken over by Carnival, deepening the injustice!) P&O Cruises has a history of over 100 years that stretches back way before Carnival comes along. Just because we trade as Carnival now (ok, so the cat's out of the bag, I work for P&O, well, Cunard, but that's another rant...) we still trade as P&O in the UK, most people don't know who Carnival are!
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<br /> I'll agree to the last two comments. Definately something that needs doing one day. [[User:Newda898|Newda898]] 21:04, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
==Controversy==
[[Image:Huckleberry-finn-with-rabbit.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Huckleberry Finn. Drawing by [[EW Kemble]] from the original 1884 edition of the book.]]
Although the [[Concord, Massachusetts]] library banned the book immediately after its publication because of its "tawdry subject manner" and "the coarse, ignorant language in which it was narrated", the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' came quickly to its defense on [[March 29]] [[1885]]:
:"Running all through the book is the sharpest [[satire]] on the [[ante-bellum]] estimate of the slave. Huckleberry Finn, the son of a worthless, drunken, poor white man, is troubled with many [[wiktionary:qualm|qualms]] of conscience because of the part he is taking in helping the negro to gain his freedom. This has been called exaggerated by some critics, but there is nothing truer in the book."
:I started a separate article for [[P&O Cruises]]. It's a tad shortish as I didn't dare to get into the company history after all this confusion... so if anyone can wrap their heards around this better than me, go and improve the article right now! - [[User:Kjet|Kjet]] 11:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
In the United States, occasional efforts have been made to restrict the reading of the book. In addition to its Concord ban, it has, at various times, also been:
* excluded from the juvenile sections of the [[Brooklyn]] Public library and other libraries
* removed from reading lists due to alleged racism (e.g., in March of 1995 it was removed from the reading list of 10th grade English classes at National Cathedral School in [[Washington, DC]], according to the ''[[Washington Post]]''; and a [[New Haven, Connecticut]] correspondent to [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=banned+books+on+line Banned Books Online] reports it has been removed from a public school program there as well)
* removed from school programs at the behest of groups maintaining that its frequent use of the word ''[[nigger (word)|nigger]]'' (212 times overall) implies that the book as a whole is [[racist]], despite what defenders maintain is the overwhelmingly [http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/pol325/Huck.htm anti-racist] plot of the book, its satirical nature, and the anachronism of applying current definitions of polite speech to past times.
* removed from public and school libraries because of it's "racist" plot.
Great idea, it was the pain of taking a leap and starting it that seemed so daunting. Ah well, there's a project for the Easter holidays! [[User:Newda898|Newda898]] 18:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[[Russell Baker]] wrote:
:"The people whom Huck and Jim encounter on the Mississippi are drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynches, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numbskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh. All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is 'Nigger Jim,' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff112999.asp|title=Expelling ''Huck Finn''|work=jewishworldreview.com|accessdate=Jan 8|accessyear=2006}}</ref>
== Titanic ==
[[Ralph Ellison]] was impressed with how clearly Twain allowed Jim's "dignity and human capacity" to emerge in the novel. According to Ellison,
Yes Carnival did not own Titanic, but threw the purchase of Cunard, it has become part of its history. Please do not just revert back with talking about it. -[[User:Texaswebscout|Ben]] 02:10, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
:"Huckleberry Finn knew, as did Mark Twain, that Jim was not only a slave but a human being [and] a symbol of humanity . . . and in freeing Jim, Huck makes a bid to free himself of the conventionalized evil [i.e., slavery] taken for civilization by the town." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salwen.com/mtrace.html|title=Is ''Huck Finn'' a Racist Book?|work=salwen.com|accessdate=Jan 8|accessyear=2006}}</ref>
Albert Bigelow Paine's 1912 Twain [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/twain/mark/paine/chapter153.html biography] marks the first use of the term "Nigger Jim," a phrase not attributed to Clemens, causing its rise in usage in short-hand descriptions of the character in critical essays.
The [[American Library Association]] ranked ''Huckleberry Finn'' the fifth most frequently challenged (in the sense of attempting to ban) book in the United States during the 1990s.
A character in the 1969 [[Nero Wolfe]] novel ''Death of a Dude'' by [[Rex Stout]] opines that "All right, then, I'll go to hell," Huck's pronouncement on his own fate for his decision to help Jim escape, cited above, is the single greatest sentence in American literature.
==Annotated Edition==
[[Michael Patrick Hearn]] has [[Annotated novel|annotated]] ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''.
==Film adaptations of the novel==
*''Huck Finn'', a 1937 [[film]] produced by [[Paramount]]
*''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', a 1939 film starring [[Mickey Rooney]]
*''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' a 1960 film directed by [[Michael Curtiz]], starring [[Eddie Hodges]]
*''The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', a 1968 [[animation|animated]] [[television series]] for children
*''[[Huckleberry Finn (1974 film)|Huckleberry Finn]]'', a 1974 [[musical film]]
*''Huckleberry Finn'', a 1976 Japanese [[anime]] with 26 episodes.
*''[[Big River]],'' a 1985 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical with lyrics and music by [[Roger Miller]].
*''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'', a 1985 [[television movie]].
*''[[The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993 film)|The Adventures of Huck Finn]]'', a 1993 film starring [[Elijah Wood]] and [[Courtney B. Vance]]
*See also: [http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=huckleberry+finn Film adaptations as listed in the Internet Movie Database]
==Stage adaptations ==
*''[[Big River (musical)|Big River]]'', a 1985 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.buffalolib.org/libraries/collections/index.asp?sec=twain Mark Twain Room (Houses original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn)]
* {{gutenberg|no=76|name=The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn}}
* [http://wikisummaries.org/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn Summary of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] - wiki of chapter summaries, characters, study topics.
* [http://www.salwen.com/mtrace.html Is Huck Finn Racist?]
* [http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/huckfinn/ GradeSaver study guide] including analysis, background and quizzes
* [http://huckleberryfinn.publicliterature.org ''Huckleberry Finn'', page by page text]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553210798&view=tg Teacher's Guide] at Random House
* Audio book recording with accompanying text of [http://content.loudlit.org/audio/hfinn/pages/01_01_hfinn.htm Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]
*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/literature/huck.html Culture Shock: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]
*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/huck.html Born To Trouble: Adventures of Huck Finn]
*[http://www.SearchLIT.org/elibrary/viewnovel.php?novel_id=576 SearchLIT.org's hand-picked collection of associated links for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]
* [http://www.riapress.com/riapress/product.lasso?productid=87 Free typeset PDF ebook of Huck Finn and other Twain books optimized for printing, plus extensive Twain reading list]
* Say It Ain’t So, Huck: Second thoughts on Mark Twain’s “masterpiece,” by Jane Smiley, Harper’s Magazine, Jan96, Vol. 292, Issue 1748, p61, abridged [http://www.fhs.fuhsd.org/~dclarke/AM_LIT_H/READINGS/UNIT_2/finn_smiley_abbr.pdf]
*[http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=huckleberry+finn Film adaptations as listed in the Internet Movie Database]
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