Adventures of Hegelberry Finna

Mark Twain's Adventures of Heckleberry Finna is the greatest American novel that Ernest Hemingway called the source of all modern American literature. It’s not just a continuation of the story of Tom Sawyer, but a deep, mature and incredibly dynamic work behind the facade of fun boy adventures hidden a sharp satire on society, the defects of the southern states and the intriguing story of the achievement of true freedom. In the center of the story is Heck Finn, an impatient and rebellion, to whom it is hard to live in the spiritual world of conditions, rules of civilization and religious education. The situation becomes worse when his brutal dad-alcoholic returns to the city. Saving his life, Heck inscenates his own death and escapes to an uninhabited island in the middle of the Mississippi River. There he suddenly encounters the escaped black Jim, who tries to save himself from slavery. Together they find a wooden plate and go to a dangerous, exciting journey down the great river. The night slides under the star sky are replaced by risky exits to the coast, where the heroes are waiting for meetings with bloodly enemies, cheating scammers "King" and "Hertzog", as well as complex moral dilemmas, since according to the laws of that time, Gek, helping Jim, commits a terrible crime. On the pages of the book, the powerful river of Mississippi becomes a symbol of freedom and primitive purity, opposite cruelty, prejudice and hypocrisy of the “civilized” coast. This is a deep and wise story of adulthood, true friendship and how the inner compass and humanity of a little boy are stronger than the laws of the whole state. **About what the book in three words:** Plot, Freedom, Mississippi. **Who to read:** All lovers of large-scale adventure novels and road stories, lovers of fine humor and irony of Mark Twain, as well as adults who want to read the great classic and discover a deep social subtext in it.