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LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD
Among my favorite book quotations that I save and look at regularly are the last two lines from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Here they are:
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.
Rather than conform and become “sivilized,” Huck decides to head west to “Indian Territory,” where he can live independently and freely. Huck Finn changed everything in children’s literature. Ernest Hemingway described Huckleberry Finn as the first real American novel. It was among the first to use regional vernacular and broke new literary ground in a myriad of ways. Twain captures ...
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