Mark Twain wrote the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It spans approximately 240 pages and was chosen because it is part of the eleventh grade curriculum. The book begins and takes place in St. Petersburg, Missouri, along the Mississippi River; the setting later changes depending on how far down the river they go. The time frame is the early to mid-nineteenth century. The main character, for which the book is named, is Huckleberry Finn: known as …showed first 75 words of 518 total…

…showed last 75 words of 518 total…the slave hunters in chapter fifteen. The eighteenth chapter ends with the Grangerford vs. Sheperdson gunfight. The two Grangerfords are killed, one of which is Buck; Huck is sickened and quickly sets off to find the raft and Jim. The book is an interesting tale to this point. It has many aspects, which are appealing to all types of people. Mark Twain did a nice job in the writing of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.