Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) - Thug Notes Summary and Analysis

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[@monkeymouse]

Huck Finn is probably the most censored book in America, because if seven words Huck says when he writes a letter telling folks back in Missouri where Jim is at so they can take him back to slave for them--and he remembers the good times and friendship he had with Jim--and he thinks about how anyone against slavery supposed to go to Hell, so Huck tears up the letter and says "All right, then, I'll go to Hell". That STILL messes people up!

[@jesseonline24601]

Huck Finn is one of my favorite books, and that is my favorite part.

[@bongripsfordenji5736]

That was my favorite part of the book so much growth in just one scene

[@richardranke7878]

Initially this messed me up, but later I realized that Huck didn't realize he was making a good decision, although forbidden by society.

[@bugeyedmonster2]

And remember that back then, Southern preachers taught that help slaves escape was wrong. Huck probably really did believe he would go to hell for helping Jim. So he was willing to face eternal torment in hell, for the sake of his friend Jim. How many of us could do that? (Even if you're an atheist or Jewish, and don't believe in hell, you still have to really respect Huck for his choice. I believe that Huck really did think he would go to hell.)

[@thetruth4654]

Just a little History reminder that the democrats supported slavery

[@blockmasterscott]

"Peace, my well read ballers!" I would not be at all surprised if this guy is a Harvard graduate with a masters in English lol!

[@normtrooper4392]

blockmasterscott I think he does have a masters in literature

[@jesseonline24601]

I know he has a Ph.D.

[@123videos456]

That’s what good teachers do - they educate you and engage you.

[@Stg9900]

I finished reading this book when I was 11. It still remains one of my favorites. The message of "Do I follow the rules or do I follow my heart?" is timeless.

[@Laridian]

Just found Thug Notes and watched like 20 in a row. I do not doubt for a second that this man is a literary genius. Keep keepin' it real, homie. I want to see thug notes on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

[@julietcunningham852]

I agree entirely.

[@prestonburkett3183]

Ready for my exam tomorrow

[@prestonburkett3183]

Fuck yeah 98 on my test

[@EchoVale]

+Preston Burkett Almost ready for my test tomorrow

[@meganc4028]

I have an Exam tomorrow. ill let you know how i do

[@meganc4028]

HEY i got a B!

[@EchoVale]

Nice I got an 88.... Once of the questions was "Who has sand?"

[@alexlovelife2543]

Honestly learned more in this video than the months my AP English Literature and Composition did about this book. Using not only terminology that many students can understand, but also making the description slightly funny makes this video a great one. Thank you for this series.

[@janeyrevanescence12]

That has to be the most unique April Fool's prank ever. Wonderful job, Thug Notes.

[@molemanninethousand]

It's not unique at all, he just put a bait-and-switch title on an otherwise normal and normally-produced episode of his series.

[@Ghostofmonk]

Aww, I was hoping for a real satiric Twilight analysis.

[@endofyraaaaryfodne3389]

I've never wanted to read Huckleberry Fin. But after your awesome summary, I have the urge to read the book myself. Will hustle to the library asap. Good job Prof Sweets!

[@waspshot23]

Aw hell naw > Video starts Aw hell yah

[@winebox]

As I am so addicted to T-Notes, I figured I'ld even watch a Twilight one!

[@NoahFroio]

It's official; I am adding 'Well Read Baller!!' to my resume and all future business cards! Peace Out Family!

[@freddyscoggan9345]

Just finished reading the book, I always love to watch WiseCrack's analysis in case I missed something and I did. I noticed huck was always running away from his problems but never made the connection that the Mississippi River was his freedom or the symbol of freedom. Thank you for this amazing video :)

[@kikahomg]

I just happened to stumble upon this channel... And oh my lanta I LOVE IT SOOOOOO MUCH! I think "peace my well read ballas" is now going to be in my everyday vocabulary! Such excite, much joy!(yes that was a doge reference, and I am not ashamed of it lol)

[@ShadowsHeat]

Best April fool's prank

[@sharlesdaviskendy2391]

Oh thank GOD!

[@sharlesdaviskendy2391]

***** Title says Twilight. video is not about Twilight. This isn't exactly a complicated prank.

[@MrBscotti]

Killed it again! I'm loving this show, keep up the great work. My English teacher mentioned Dostoevsky the other day when we were watching a Russian film and I threw down the connections to the Underground Man. Haven't read the book yet but Thug Notes has broadened my horizons.

[@TheHoratio55]

i'm using this to work on my literary analyses paper on how huck is used as a device to point out all the fucked up shit in slavery era culture. i'll give you a citation or two.

[@georgeclarmon9736]

My 8th grade English teacher told us to watch your video on Huckleberry Finn cuz we were reading it in class

[@Fakenit66]

Oh, thank fuck. It IS an April fools joke.

[@redsimonyt]

Yeah I'm glad too.

[@MrBenMcLean]

It's been a long time since I read Huck Finn, but I don't think Huck rejects Christianity. I think he rejects the preachers of his society who have twisted it to defend slavery. Huck doesn't have the education to argue with the pro-slavery preachers logically, but he knows slavery is wrong and doesn't know how he knows it. I think Twain deliberately left religious and non-religious interpretations of Huck's decisions open.

[@ishikabe1]

He's not against the words of the religion, but he's against the actions of the followers of that religion.

[@spencerjulian8712]

In the book he questions why his care taker prays before meals if that adds any context their is a bunch of different times where he does

[@MrBenMcLean]

Josh Hanson As I said, "I think Twain deliberately left religious and non-religious interpretations of Huck's decisions open." If you want to interpret it as Huck having a better intuitive understanding of God than the preachers intellectual understanding then you can, and if you want to interpret it as Huck rejecting God then you can.

[@MrBenMcLean]

Josh Hanson "Huck never actually questions that the preachers and his guardians and all of the slave-holding people are wrong" -- like i said, he can't argue against slavery logically. "he just recognizes that his own feelings are in direct contradiction to everything he's been taught," -- I'm not sure Huck's opposition to slavery is just his own feelings. This assumes he's a subjectivist, emotivist about ethics, like you probably are. I don't think so. I think he looks Jim in the eyes and sees that there's a person just like him there, and I think that's more than just emotion. I think Huck has a kind of knowledge there, not just emotion, which he just can't put into words. "He actually thinks he's a bad person because if it." - And that's why I don't think his opposition to slavery is purely emotional: because his emotions are inclined toward these false-guilt feelings

[@MrBenMcLean]

Christianity explicitly condones Biblical slavery, which is nothing like the American South.

[@chickenofthecave1406]

As I read the book for summer reading I thought it was really really dry and that events were really dragged out. But then a few chapters later you realize how important every little thing was. And then at the very end of the book you just get blown away and realize how amazing the book actually is. Now I just need to read Moby Dick and Grapes of Wrath. Fun summer for me....

[@zoesnyder1674]

I just read this for pleasure, thanks for taking me to school! It was awesome!

[@laurenconrad1799]

Your face at 2:09 was priceless. It was the exact same face I made when I got to that portion of the book.

[@nandob1998]

I learn more from this channel than my actual english class

[@allisonnadine1537]

This is the best thing I have ever watched. Thank you.

[@Ken_Brooks]

Excellent, insightful synopsis. Please say you gave this as an oral report in class.

[@m.a.r.6066]

Really enjoying this straight-up slant on the classics. I'm glad you stopped swilling whiskey after your talks, and open the book. Thanks.

[@PBradleyRobb]

I get the April Fool's Day aspect of this, but I would love to see an actual review of Twilight. Class that joint up a bit.

[@PBradleyRobb]

***** there's only one way to find out...

[@Kirinet]

***** oh my god thissss. That book is so badly written you'd think it's some fanfic of an anime.

[@Kirinet]

Double posted whoops

[@CusterDawg]

PrehistoricBiiirds? Fanfic? I'm pretty sure that book was called Fifty Shades of Grey. :P

[@Kirinet]

CusterDawg That one was boring unless you read the porn parts, which was hilarious. But yeah, Fifty Shades of Grey plays like a fanfic of a fanfic.

[@OpheliaBookworm]

Haha, glad it's not twilight, but to see him summarize that book would have been hilarious!

[@deano.7533]

I cannot believe that a network hasn't picked this book critic up and used this idea in their programming. Heck, BET would eat this up... he'd be a gold mine to them... (or any other network for that matter) Let people know that this guy is coming up for a 4 minute segment after they come back from commercial and people would probably watch the commercials to ensure they don't miss his segment. I'm serious... Somebody needs to hire this guy. He's funny and he's smart. That's two things this guy has to offer that many people who are already on television don't offer in the least. Somebody hire this man and pay him already! :-o

[@NobodyTouchesJordan]

Can you do Tom Sawyer please?

[@ei-sj8dp]

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[@obi_dean]

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[@nickbrittin7871]

Another brilliant episode! I use these in class every semester.

[@lesbinturong9605]

I showed this to my english teacher and she showed it in class. A+

[@hopesarah4386]

Blessed to have Thug Notes in my life. Now I can actually pass my exam. thank you

[@lotus-prince]

This got me. Nice April Fool's joke. :-D That said, after today, I suggest that you rename the video to its proper title, so people who search your channel will know what to look for.

[@katl8825]

LOL this is actually perfect, I was hoping you'd do this book since I'm reading it in school :3

[@JacobBecomesIsrael]

OK. I definitely subbed. Pretty darn good stuff. Mark Twain wasn't just a funny guy. He was making fun of people while entertaining them!

[@w7100]

you had me for a second

[@mikewaldrep7712]

I forgot what today was and when I saw the title, I was shaking my head. Nice one my good professor.

[@lucasasullivan]

"On the real: people can be dicks man." - Dr. Sweets.

[@sparkfx5874]

I appreciate the Huckleberry Finn analysis. Probably far more so than I would have appreciated yet another cheap shot at the Twilight series. Well played, thug.

[@MeinosKaen2]

April's Fools strikes again! :D

[@chrillofool]

This is fucking billiant, what a genius

[@JiriTeller]

hahah you scared the shit out of me with the title. Good job on the review!

[@OrianaZ5]

Brilliant as usual :)

[@chinatown00x]

I almost skipped this video for obvious reasons. So glad I didn't. Well played, sir. Well played.

[@johnnyr25]

Phew! You got me, too. Saints be praised, it was Huck Finn.

[@PotterPossum1989]

This was actually phenomenal. It's kitschy but intelligent.

[@UltimaLuminaire]

Smooth. You never disappoint. Have a great one, my man, and to all my fellows out there, only in our wildest dreams.

[@randyscott3386]

With the first camera I ever got , I found it on the neighbors trash pile . On the first roll of film . I took a picture of the Actors who played Tom and Huck standing in the front yard of Tom's house getting directions from the director . I was about 7 or 8 and the camera was an old box camera . Later I read the book Tom Sawyer and imagined a paddlewheel steamboat out on the lake where my Uncles boat dock used to be . And they Built the Showboat Branson Bell there later . The largest vessel on any landlocked body of water in America . Yeah , On Tablerock Lake in Branson . Missouri is awesome !

[@SparcMac11]

This is honestly the only way I'll come remotely close to reading Twilight...thank you Thug Notes.

[@kcgayla9000]

Hey! I'm a Hannibal, MO, (aka Mark Twain fan-gal) and I think your video is really fun. I'm spread'n this channel around. Thanks!

[@FatherOfGray]

Sometimes I wish that I could escape society like Huck and live by my own rules. The problem is that in this day and age, that's straight up impossible. Humanity's lust for land and power has made it so that every habitable inch of the earth has been taken by one civilization or another. Combine that with social media making the world smaller and smaller and you realize there ain't nowhere to escape to. You could always try to hit up the seven seas to find a remote island to chill on, but chances are that island is a territory of Cuba or some shit. No matter where you try to hide, there's always going to be some douche that imposes their laws and expectations upon you. It's a sad fact of life, and we all got to live with it.

[@pajmansarafzadeh7771]

Socrates had the same dilemma in ancient Greece. He chose to die rather than leave the city. I suggest you not follow Socrates's example and take a camping vacation

[@trentonx]

but you can still move 30 minutes south and start over, keep searching for your home and don't give in to joining the crap around you. I've found my home you'll find yours. The longer you stay where you are, well.... just don't, move down river untill you find what you're looking for my friend.

[@SCOTTpilgrimist12]

Work for a few years, buy a nice property in the country, live off the fatta tha lan'.

[@Dreamskater100]

It's still possible. I've seen many documentaries of people doing it, check out Ben Fogles pgms on meeting these guys & Into the Wild film. I've seen lots of examples of people on youtube by typing in this subject.

[@crimsonsamuraiftw]

***** If only that were possible these days.. but they still charge property taxes, sales taxes, roadway taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes. Makes it almost impossible to trade for things you need that you can't make/create yourself, and you have to find some way to make money without working in order to pay these dreary taxes.

[@TheSkyMex]

Ha! Got me too. For the better, I might add. When are you going to do Franz Kafka, "Metamorphisis"?

[@infinityc2360]

Hahaha good job. I should've saw that coming. That's the first April Fools prank I fell for in a while. Proud to say it was you :)

[@Lunacyrabbit]

I really enjoy this channel's videos. (Just subscribed since I'm loving all the videos so far!) Also the analysis on the books are great since it's so accurate! I can't wait for more episodes. If you can, can you please do an episode on The Natural by Bernard Malamud? It's been one of those books that still haunts me in my sleep since high school. -shudders-

[@coquimarinero7246]

this actually convinced me to give the twilight books a shot. I seems like they make a lot more interesting points than they are given credit

[@pninaruth]

I turned this on before I was completely awake. You got me!

[@LabTech41]

Hope he changes the title to what it really is later, so it doesn't go from April Fool's to open trolling.

[@kingAngel53103]

Wow I realized I'm accually Learning stuff from these videos 10/10 have shared

[@gabrielleb74]

I saw one of the Twilight movies, it wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen but I'm glad this review was about Huckleberry Finn.

[@JordanVanRyn]

Hahahahaha!!! Nice April fool's joke, Sparky!!!

[@ariel4778]

This was rather enlightening.

[@Avinca]

amazing as always :O!!

[@mysterymastermind175]

Forsooth, I have been made a fool.

[@snuffsan]

Great as always, yours is one of the best channels here on yt

[@SMcG2012]

This is awesome. Happy April Fools', Sparky!

[@Jamesuni]

One of my favorite books all-time. Thanks Spark!

[@giants2k8]

Once I seen that the title was Twilight I was like "Noooooooo!". April fools gets me every year. lol

[@BonesofGoldSkateboarding]

dayyymmm son you went harrrrrrd up in this novel mane!! ''the mst throwedup symbol: the mississipi river. representin freedom, not just jim's freedom from slavery, but freedom from all the BULL of society'' ... fist bump ! and loved the animation ! I'm just finishing this book and it was mad fun to see your take as always! props to you for saying Huck was the only one not buying all the BULL and the cat wasn't even educated... and althought you didnt mention it: what about that gangsta *hit from that coronel shooting that drunkard Boggs cold blooded?? he was like ''BOGGS!'' *BAM!* *BAM!* smoked the crackhead right in front of his own daughter. the lil girlcrying left alone in this worldwithout her daddy.. some stone cold gangsta shee mane.. some tales from the hard side... this novel is straight up gangsta. look it up homies. peace out G's!

[@SeamusMacMattain]

great review on a fantastic book!! keep them coming!

[@jorng1986]

haha when I clicked on the video I was worried. then when you said the first words I was so relieved.

[@KingFisheR00011]

War and Peace, please?

[@MrHenry5454]

I'm not gonna lie.. I was confused for like 2 mins, then I remembered today's date! Well played!

[@vindeltrapp]

Can you do an episode on the Trial by Kafka?

[@elizabethp.8970]

That title scared the ever loving shit out of me. After a bad night at work, I needed some good lit. Thank God it was Twain.

[@FrumpybutSuperSmart]

This was a great prank. I really enjoyed the analysis but I was seriously hoping for some either tongue in cheek seriousness in analyzing Twilight or ripping it to pieces. Well done though.

[@Tenshiiryu]

I knew Sparky was too legit for that bloodsuckin sparklyboy jive.

[@giovannirivera6475]

Awesome video and super informative. Thanks!

[@MyLittleBookShelf]

What...? oh... ok... I cracked up when I saw the title and got my hopes up thinking I was gonna have a good laugh... Never mind...

[@Wolfson415]

This is the first legitimate April Fool's Joke I believed. Well played Thug Notes.

[@CPking83]

Hey thanks for making this! It helped a lot! The Outsiders by Susan Eloise Hinton would be pretty interesting too.

[@kevinsmith030990]

You should definitely do Streetcar Named Desire.

[@Farm22Girl]

Awesome!!! You got me! I kept wondering where "Twilight" was!!

[@731vampire]

Can please do fifty shades of grey .

[@stephiespooks]

I'm so happy today is April Fool's Day. You had me for a minute, Professor. :P

[@FartGarfuckle]

Amazing.... You should read "The Kite Runner" :D

[@misterpowers5234]

Yo yo yo Sparky Sweets think a brotha could do Shakesmans Julius Ceaser?

[@RabidKanid]

I remember being forced to read this book for summer reading when I was in Middle School. Based on what I know about myself and my struggles with reading novels (even today) I consider myself Dyslexic. Even after finishing these books, my School would give me a test on them and I'd always fail it. There are subjects and themes I'm getting from these videos that I NEVER noticed or understood at the time when they forced the book on me. Truthfully, they did more to set me against reading then to promote me towards it. There were a few books I liked and read through, but never the ones they forced on me at School.

[@96dnibrats]

i watched all your vids last week :[ please keep making more!!

[@sasayaki]

I was like "Oh shit, he went to the dark side!" then I realized what day it was...I was so confused for a minute lol

[@SparcMac11]

DAMNIT U GOT ME THUG NOTES....U GOT ME GOOD.

[@nataliejones377]

My English teacher played this for my class 😂

[@StupidJellyfish]

Happy April Fools to you too, playa.

[@hjewkes]

I really had my hopes up

[@JoesMusicalLife]

Hey Thug Notes I'd love to see a video done on 12 Angry Men. All your videos are great.

[@FlipTheAngryAsian]

thought this was twilight. glad it wasn't

[@jonasga]

i was kinda happy he was going to summarize twilight... he could put a really hilarious spin on it.

[@AsaButterfieldAndCat]

Amazing! Thank you Sparky! Could you please do The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? You've saved my butt so many times, and I just need it one last time... thanks!

[@phirekid718]

First you reviewed Hemingway now Twain. Thanks for taking my requests. One particular book I wasn't really feeling when I read it years ago was "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin. Maybe a thug notes episode will change that.

[@Patroclus]

Lmao I thought something was wrong with my phone and youtube app, I reloaded it a half dozen times hahaha Nice one