The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Part 1: Crash Course Literature 302

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In which John Green teaches you about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This week, we'll talk a little bit about Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under the name Mark Twain, and how he mined his early life for decades to produce his pretty well-loved body of work. By far the best of Twain's novels, Huckleberry Finn has a lot to say about life in America around the Civil War, and it resonates today with its messages on race, class, and what exactly freedom is.
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@tjg555 8 лет назад

John Green is an inspiration to people everywhere who don't want to comb their hair.

@ViRuSrooz14 8 лет назад

The puff levels are high.

@MonkeyspankO 8 лет назад

in 20 years he will officially morph into Sideshow Bob

@SuperExodian 8 лет назад

i used to not comb my hair. but now i've got 40 cm long hair and it's become a fairly necessary action

@armvex 8 лет назад

No he is not. I don't comb my hair

@ghostpeel 7 лет назад

He's also an inspiration to the ones who study American literature, I can't thank him enough for easing me into the context of what has been scribbled in Freedom Land.

@smirkypants 8 лет назад

Best line in all of American Literature: "All right then, I'll go to hell."

@cuckmaker5437 8 лет назад

Words you must say as an American before voting for Trump

@aarondavis5386 8 лет назад

aaaaand zero to political in 2.3 seconds.

@TheZyanas 8 лет назад

+Aaron Davis I would argue that those words in their original context were already like, a 14 on a 1 to 10 scale of expressing political opinion. If anything, the new context would make them less political. The specific views being expressed don't really have anything to do with each other though.

@bobfisher7101 8 лет назад

@jeffbaer5851 6 лет назад

Yes, indeed the best line in all of American lit, but sorry John Green, the "climactic" moment where Huck says this and tears the letter is in Chapter 31, not Chapter 16.

@thatjillgirl 8 лет назад

I do think the new censored versions of the book completely miss the point of the story, which is exactly as you said. Here is this boy who has been raised by an overtly racist society and has even adopted its overtly racist language. And yet throughout the story he struggles against what he has been taught and rejects it all, ultimately deciding that he'd rather literally go to hell than return Jim to slavery. That is easily on the list of most powerful moments in American literature.

@DuranmanX 8 лет назад

That might as well replace all the words with a British accent

@Grizabeebles 7 лет назад

I think the words should be there just so that we keep having to have this exact conversation. Having to navigate morally grey areas is a life skill. Which, ironically, is they very thing _Huck Finn_ is all about. I am really offended by racists and intolerant speech but the irony is that passing a law to ban a thing is a form of _intolerance._ I much prefer yelling at people on streetcorners and books whose entire purpose is debunking the ideas of someone else's book. You know, healthy discussion.

@sketchstevens5859 6 лет назад

thatjillgirl That is exactly what I got from it when I first read that moment

@theodoretee6563 4 года назад

Yeaaaaa

@Luboman411 7 лет назад

You know you've created a masterpiece when, throughout 130 some-odd years, someone always tries to ban your book for one reason or another. Back then it was because it portrayed black people as fully-realized humans. Later, because it described terrible scenes of slavery, child abuse and murder. And now, because of the "n-word". Mark Twain just hits the raw American nerve over and over and over again. This is why it's the Great American Novel--it pisses off so many Americans for so many different reasons. That and the incredible language Mark Twain utilizes.

@elektrikhd 8 лет назад

Huck dressed as a girl... When reading this book in high school, I didn't read that section before class, and was flipping through to try and get some idea of what happened for a chance at not completely failing the quiz. I didn't read the section about Huck dressing as a girl, but I saw an illustration that was included in the book. So, on the quiz, our teacher asked, "How does Huck get $5?" My response: "Huck wins a drag contest." I received partial credit.

@mimi-hy2re 4 года назад

that means your teacher "partially" agrees

@ArrogantlyGabby 8 лет назад

a young special needs boy I cared for enjoyed watching your videos (especially John greene) he was so excited for this series he sadly passed away last month I'm gonna watch for him r.i.p Dakota

@TheNoladrummer 8 лет назад

My interpretation of the Tom Sawyer section of "Huckleberry Finn" is that it symbolizes Huck's last separation. Namely, from childhood. Twain juxtaposes Tom's airy, immature shenanigans with Huck's experienced, thoughtful view of reality. Tom's playing games. Jim and Huckleberry are in a fight for their lives. After rejecting society and religion, the last tether holding Huck back from manhood is childhood. My two cents. This book changed my life as a young boy in the deep South. Editing it in any way only lessens the impact of the novel. Thank you, Crash Course. I love your channel!

@TheNoladrummer 8 лет назад

"Manhood" meaning a state in which a male is solely responsible for his thoughts, words, and actions.

@PoseidonXIII 8 лет назад

A sound heart is stronger than a deformed conscience, that is very beautiful.

@amandasmith593 8 лет назад

I hate it when people confuse portrayals of racism with racism on the part of the author. Huck Finn uses racial slurs not to insult or dehumanize black people, but to demonstrate the attitudes of society towards those people. Characters' use of racial slurs is meant to symbolize that, for all their claims to being civilized, they are the ones lacking in morals and education.

@jordanthomas4379 5 лет назад

Amanda Smith thank you, you are smarter than 90% of the people who read this book.

@JaimeMesChiens 5 лет назад

Without the original language, the novel loses much-of what we are meant to learn. I think reading Tom Sawyer is only because of Huck Finn. Had the latter not been written, the former would have been all-but a footnote in American Literature.

@mandles. 8 лет назад

Ugh this brings back so many memories. When i was in high school this book was banned from being taught in English but my AP language and composition teacher had us read it anyway and im so glad she did!!

@Infamous1892 8 лет назад

By changing the words in the book, they are watering down the issues of the time.

@swtipie412 7 лет назад

I read Huck Finn in my junior English class and before we started reading my teacher passed out passages from the book and we spent an entire class period discussing the language. This helped me appreciate the book more than anything. If she had not done that and drawn us into the book that way, I might have never even started reading it. But Huck Finn has since become a book close to my heart for its clever writing/hilarious dialouge, satire, development of the characters, and so much more. Gosh now I want to read it again.

@infernaldarklord 8 лет назад

I never truly realized how much I had missed crash course literature, until it was back in my life again.

@123guy5 8 лет назад

last time I was this early Scotland wasn't part of the United Kingdom

@toffeesky6227 8 лет назад

1707?

@stza16 8 лет назад

huh

@rogue123987 8 лет назад

I, uh, don't think you're that old dude. XD

@wafflewarble2980 8 лет назад

give it a few years

@IsThisRain 8 лет назад

+rogue123987 Oh really? We couldn't tell.

@kenyagonzalez1072 8 лет назад

I have never been more excited for a video in my life!!!! I chose to read Huckleberry Finn for my "free chose" book report and I was having a difficult time truly understanding the novel. This video could not have come at a better moment!

@xX_swagger_Xx 8 лет назад

3:02 Lol my school library had The adventures of Tom Sawyer but not Huckleberry Finn, I borrowed it once because I thought it was the Huckleberry Finn book, and man I was dissapointed

@zakariyaabdullahi2350 8 лет назад

Imagine when John has to do "The Fault in Our Stars" I never read it, but he might have to do it pretty soon.

@JulianWyllie 8 лет назад

Love your series! Always adds a succinct perspective.

@fromscratchauntybindy9743 8 лет назад

Just picked up a copy from a Salvation Army store today - going to read it with all of this in mind, thank you John for the guiderails. Hope you're getting plenty of rest, writing and family time on your net-break! DFTBA

@lawrencecalablaster568 8 лет назад

Crash Course Literature is the greatest! Thank you, John!

@ShibinGeorge_sg1993 8 лет назад

I liked the lecture by the title even before I watched it. Never regretted it.

@Doughnuts2105 8 лет назад

Hey John I would really appreciate if you could do a crash course on Howl and A Doll's House please. Love your work, keep it up!

@BSMArtnLit 11 месяцев назад

damn boring to read

@curiousshinigami6600 7 лет назад

Thank you SO much for creating this video. It is really going to help me understand the feel of the time.. trying not to fail my A Levels :3 For my second literature exam this year it focuses on American literature between 1880-1940.. need to read a few books but I don't know if I'll be able really understand the era with the little amount of time This is going to be really helpful :) Thanks again

@isabellamalagon4720 8 лет назад

I'm so excited for the new literature videos!

@brennadowd9807 8 лет назад

one of my camp counselors came from key west, or as he called it: "north Cuba"

@lindaarnoldus9612 7 лет назад

Please do one of these for great expectations!!!

@lamtwentythirteen 8 лет назад

bless you for bringing back crash course literature!!!!

@specialthanks6361 8 лет назад

Hehe....I love every Video you make from my heart,Mr. Greene.... I'll never forget to be awesome.

@victorianightshade4237 8 лет назад

I've been waiting for this.

@ColterDewitt 8 лет назад

You handled that language segment perfectly. I was nervous about the reactionaries.

@aristidesiliopoulos7041 8 лет назад

great and fun study of the work. these videos are excellent.

@loza2101 8 лет назад

One of my all time favourite book!!

@andy4an 8 лет назад

I read and enjoyed Tom Sawyer as a young kid, and was thrilled to hear that there was a sequel. I asked the librarian to help me find it, and she wouldn't. instead she gave me "the golden compass". I never forgave her for this double slight.

@daeciahylton5727 8 лет назад

This video was well said, I LOVE @Crashcourse (and honestly I still watch the children's crash course channel oh well haha :)) Keep doing what you guys are doing, and if this helps, I'll continue to watch the advertisements :)

@CODYj423 6 лет назад

That short Hemingway rant was manic genius!

@bobblehead7002 7 лет назад

I just read the book. Thank you

@laurensklaassen6869 8 лет назад

John, will there be another crash course history series? I totally loved these series :D

@taylorsharp2196 8 лет назад

You mention that "all right, then, I'll go to hell" is in Chapter 16. There have been a lot of editions, but my copy, and a few hits from a google search, have it listed as ch. 31. I looked it up because I wanted to read the whole passage again :)

@eahere 8 лет назад

Welcome back John!

@aperson22222 8 лет назад

I oughta reread Huck Finn. Haven't touched it since I was twelve, and most of it went over my head. I enjoyed the episodic adventures, was genuinely baffled why everyone seemed to take it for granted that racism was good, and missed the rest.

@gaudimaxwell8643 8 лет назад

Hey john! Love these crash courses, and idk if you take suggestions, but I'm going to ask anyways lol. Can you do a crash course on Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin? I'd love to hear what you think about it 😁 -Thanks oodles for the awesome

@brecuethemusic03 8 лет назад

Hey John/Crash course, I would love if you covered the little house on the prairie novels or novel of your choice! I think its an important part of our american literature, food for thought Thanks!

@crimsondeadpool 8 лет назад

Yes!!! You're back!!!!!

@mubmakes6977 8 лет назад

GOOD VIDEO , MADE IT ALL CLEAR

@stuartd155 8 лет назад

Given that this novel was censored I was wondering if you be covering George Orwell's 1984?

@kaku55rox 8 лет назад

So excited for LORD OF THE FLIES

@artwithtristen1195 8 лет назад

This came a few months to late could of used this during school

@BagelsBagelsBagels 8 лет назад

also: too* late

@chrismcgowan5180 8 лет назад

Seen as we are deconstructing this comment, the 'during school' should be more specific what level of school? where is it situated? without context how are we ever to know how late the video was?

@djmsong 8 лет назад

+Volound Could of: Could've. People who spell it like it sounds and get it wrong.

@Volound 8 лет назад

Chris McGowan specificity /= accuracy

@winkoman3 8 лет назад

You could have used a lot of help in school.

@sgufanboy 8 лет назад

John Green's back!! Day made :)

@javanknox8360 8 лет назад

I hope you guys might consider doing an episode on Mark Twain's Diaries of Adam and Eve in relation to Twain's views on religion and mortality. Some of Twain's most touching writing can be found in that book.

@cckoko6304 8 лет назад

Hi John! I'm student teaching this year, and the unit assigned for my own independent instruction is Huck Finn! I cannot begin to describe how happy I am that you're including this-- I'm so excited to show my 7th graders! Thanks!

@andernj08 8 лет назад

thanks, thats my english assignment complete!

@futuredoc2014 6 лет назад

Lovin' the laptop sticker!

@dannisaurs269 8 лет назад

Could the next book annotation be "the picture of Dorian grey" by Oscar Wilde? It is slightly difficult for me to truly understand the horror aspect of this Gothic literature piece. Also love the video thank you for helping me get through English class.

@rajarshibiswas8229 8 лет назад

I love the secret compartment.

@skak6980 8 лет назад

I'm still waiting for a new series 'bout history, with John Greene.

@claytonpace3698 7 лет назад

John Green, I respect you immensely and truly admire your intelligence and the way you put things like literature and history in such great perspective. That being said, you lost couple points from me for inferring Aliens is better than Alien.

@warrengday 8 лет назад

Read both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn last year. Loved TS, wished I'd read it as a child, it's a captures a change in thinking as one grows up perfectly; HF I didn't enjoy anywhere near as much.

@TravisSelassieSimbawafedha 8 лет назад

He grew up in Michigan just down the road about 20 miles from my families ranch.

@jerryto803 8 лет назад

Please do an episode about Blood Meridian after this!

@EuropeanQoheleth 8 лет назад

Yes. Empire Strikes Back is my favourite Star Wars movie. I haven't seen The Force Awakens though.

@itsMickeyR2 8 лет назад

why the hell didn't you make this like 4 months ago, it would have made my english class SO MUCH EASIER TO DEAL WITH. AHHH

@darkroomvampire7514 7 лет назад

Great great great book !

@upyo9 8 лет назад

You guys should talk about invisible man by Ralph Ellison. It's a beautifully written novel and I more essential then ever at this point in our society.

@iananderson12796 8 лет назад

THIS CHANNEL NEEDS MORE HEMINGWAY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

@EdEddnEddyonline1 7 лет назад

This is useful since we're reading this in my career ready English 11 class

@yungbisher 8 лет назад

I remember reading huck Finn then being told that I had to read Tom Sawyer first and got so bored from it that I forgot to go back and finish huck Finn

@Calverkristina 8 лет назад

could I possibly request a series about the arts and art movements as well as some history on literary movements and key figures?

@ryanconnor3480 8 лет назад

@belamielczarski4199 8 лет назад

@apop2014 8 лет назад

i never read the book because i never had the time but after watching this video, i think i will give it a try. I didn't know it was so influential

@dreesunc 8 лет назад

a lot of the humor is really difficult to see if you dont know what twain is punning about. the first time i read the book, i thought the orgy thing was really weird. i didnt realize that the guy was saying he wants to hold an obsequy (oratory part of a funeral service) and that it was mocking the adults. i realized that if there was any part of the book that i didnt think was funny, i most likely just did not understand it :) it is one of the books that only gets better with rereadings. best of luck in rereading it!

@apop2014 8 лет назад

dreesunc, thanks for the heads-up!

@furret1907 7 лет назад

Mark Twain is my 7 times great uncle and I have a cousin named Langhorn.

@jeffreydrayton 6 лет назад

John Green, you are a great host! I enjoy every episode. (Although, it wouldn't hurt to shave.)(And maybe get a decent haircut.) You're a great host!

@gregmiller9710 8 лет назад

..how long has John been back? i surly did miss him & his style of presentation..

@Caryn-Brooks 8 лет назад

So happy to see this! We have been listening to Elijah Wood's reading (on audible) and cannot get enough of it. I keep thinking about Sherburn's speech and our online mobs. And how the mob and the people throughout the book, are so like we are, so human and familiar and distracted and distractable. I *had* to read Tom Sawyer in school and we didn't get to Huck and I would have been happy enough to skip the first. We think Tom is a wart and mean and too careless with people and greedy. We love Huck, Jim, Mrs Hotchkiss, Joanna Wilks (and her fabulous lessons in Critical thinking . . . "There's no sense in it."), the woman who devises the Achilles-like Lady test to pierce Huck's disguise and the gliding undertaker - "He had a rat!". I know it is probably enhanced by the "red car effect" but we see *everything* in this book. It's dizzying. Cannot wait for next week's video. Whatever is the matter with the ending? Why should Huck settle down in sich and sich a place on the blank day of blank? Or ever?

@jacobdrum 8 лет назад

I'm curious to hear John's thoughts on the ending; I took a Twain class or two in college and didn't know it was reviled for the last third. That's how I had been taught to read the book; in thirds: pre-Civil War, Civl War, Reconstruction (also, btw, a great way to read Life and Times on the Mississippi). Maybe it's Reconstruction that was the problem. Looking forward to the next episode.

@jacobdrum 8 лет назад

Awful and almost scandalous use of punctuation in the above comment. I have brought shame on my house and my family.

@gregmiller9710 8 лет назад

...take it easy on yourself Jacob..i thought it a good comment with no errors...

@dreesunc 8 лет назад

i am really hoping he talks about the obsequy orgy :D That is my favorite part of the whole book!

@gregmiller9710 8 лет назад

dreesunc ..i read most of the book, except the very end after tom came in and was trying to help N jim escape, where is this @?

@dreesunc 8 лет назад

Greg Miller there is a part where they get into it with two con men, and one is pretending to be a king. and they are travelling all together and they come up on a city where someone just died. and the conman king says we must hold an orgy! and he means obsequy. It was towards the end and I think it was once Tom was with them. But I have not read the book in 10 years.

@M_Chen333 8 лет назад

JOHN'S BACK!!!

@rajatkamalpolisety2864 8 лет назад

i like how you and me are the only ones that noticed this :)

@M_Chen333 8 лет назад

I know right?!

@GoldenCycloneGaming 8 лет назад

I love you John

@michikomanalang6733 8 лет назад

I'm crossing my fingers for The Good Earth soon.

@desprx6782 8 лет назад

Please do The Grapes of Wrath, The Fountainhead and 1983.

@mangolux2656 7 лет назад

i love crash course

@iheartcandy183 8 лет назад

Thank god for this video

@joshbobst1629 8 лет назад

"A deformed conscience," I like that.

@TrulyNemo 8 лет назад

Looking forward to next week. This would be one of my favourite books if it weren't for the god awful ending. Hope you can change my mind a little.

@FifthHP 8 лет назад

Has a new editor recently joined the team? I've noticed, both in this video and the previous CC Lit, that there are certain jump cuts that are a little awkward. Maybe it's just me, but it seemed like the end of the Open Letter segment was cut short. Like he said, "John Gree" instead of "John Green." Other than that, great episode!

@magicoA 7 лет назад

I don't know what it is,but I liked The Adventures of Tom Sawyer much more than Huck Finn,maybe it was the perspective or maybe I couldn't sense as much of a plot in Huck Finn as I did in Tom Sawyer,which Twain does warn the readers about.

@moonshade20 8 лет назад

Where was this video when I was in American Lit II, John? :")

@felixdawson8497 7 лет назад

You should do Art History!

@the1077936128 7 лет назад

3:46 Is that a typo or is simply a word I don't know yet?

@Hunt3rseeker 8 лет назад

+CrashCourse Would be so cool if you made a crash course about the Dune series by Frank Herbert!!

@misty9972 8 лет назад

I loved Tom Sawyer when I was younger 😂 more so than Huck Finn; I believe I found him and his imagination more relatable?

@warcraftnut1354 8 лет назад

Would love to see you do a collaboration with Thug Notes from Wisecrack.

@danielcampos1715 8 лет назад

0:27 I'm not a state, I'm a monster!

@polyvinylfilmz 8 лет назад

I'm Idaho!!

@klonkk 8 лет назад

+Polyvinyl Films I am potato

@jaredkallen4455 7 лет назад

Do you have a list of the books you cover? The literature?

@ieltslisteningbyemma 8 лет назад

Huckleberry Finn is one my favorite story

@johndavidhoynes6624 8 лет назад

Hi John

@1987MartinT 6 лет назад

I wonder where I can get the illustrated version used here.

@elafimilo8199 7 лет назад

Is John advertising polo shirts? There's an emblem on his chest.

@KGODSMACKC 8 лет назад

JOHN!! Its been too long... I haven't seen you in years... Luckily your brother has been keeping me occupied on the scishow channel... Hope you're doing well mate...

@inebriatedfeline 8 лет назад

i couldn't stop thinking of the rush song tom sawyer while i watched this

@keith19934 8 лет назад

Thank you, thank you, thank you for covering The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I studied this book in a college class, Banned Books and Censorship. At that time it was the most challenged work in American History. I personally feel Huck Finn is the greatest American Novel with The Grapes of Wrath a close second. Their use of raw American vernacular is superb and brings the audience directly into the character's conversations or thoughts. On the subject of use of the "N" word and removing it's use in Huck Finn, I believe that that is censorship and altering the original work. I hate hearing the "N" word today but understand its use by Mark Twain. Keep Up the Good Work Crash Course! Any thoughts on covering The Grapes of Wrath?