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Some Endings are Better Left Untold Ernest Hemmingway once said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. This novel is read by countless people every year and considered a classic. But “Huckleberry Finn” isn’t perfect, and many feel that Twain’s writing style took a turn for the worst while writing the last ten chapters of the book. The first thirty-one chapters of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are what most people think of when they think of the title. It’s a story of a young outcast named Huck, seeking adventure, and a runaway slave named Jim, seeking freedom, both on a raft, floating down the Mississippi river. Twain tells the story from Huckleberry’s point of view, using his naive and innocent mind to convey the unfairness and hypocrisy of slavery and Christianity, and how cruel people can be to one another. During the course of those chapters, Huck and Jim form a kind of father-son bond, and Huck stops thinking what he’s been taught- that slavery is right, and blacks are inferior. But when Huck and Jim’s raft gets hit by a steam boat and separated at the place where the river forks, splitting off into the Ohio river, the story goes