Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

Huck Finn didn't ask for a conscience. When he faked his own death and punched it down the Mississippi on a rickety raft, he wanted one thing: freedom. What he got was Jim, an enslaved man running toward the same destination, and an education in what America actually is. Together they drift through a landscape of con artists, feuding families, and men who speak the language of civilization while practicing barbarism. Huck lies his way through every town they pass, but the one lie he can't manage is the one society taught him: that Jim is property, not a man worth saving. The river doesn't care about the Civil War brewing or the Fugitive Slave Act hunting them. It just keeps moving south. What unfolds is the most dangerous kind of adventure: a white boy's fight against his own conscience, and a nation's reckoning with the distance between what it preaches and what it does. Twain wrote in the voice of a child because only a child could tell this truth.