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Never bodes well when the writer gets the title of the text wrong. 

On May 15, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-by-mark-twain-two-views
> 
> Here are two reviews of Huckleberry Finn, not some much the book but
> more attempts at describing Huck's character. The comments are equally
> important and as with the respondent Stella, the Huck defined in these
> two reviews is not the Huck of my own mind. I view Huck as neither king
> nor moralist. In fact, I don't see him as heroic at all. I see Huck as
> someone without ambition finding his own way along the middle path. He
> recognizes and even accepts the legal and moral structure of the society
> he exists in, but he has a natural talent for evading it's more virulent
> aspects. His acts are acts of his heart, not his mind nor his morals.

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