Though the story focuses on the humorous exploits of an imaginative adolescent, the story is ultimately concerned with larger themes, man’s inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values. The story of two runaways, Huck Finn and the slave Jim, and their adventures down the Mississippi on a raft. I wanted to go down to the river Shannon and stand at the banks of the river, and dreamed it might be the Mississippi, and I’d get a raft and off I’d go 60 miles out to sea. So when Huckleberry Finn came in, I wanted to be Huck Finn. And then occasionally other books came into our area but we couldn’t just go out and buy books and there was not a library for children. “I think the first book that I ever read was Tom Brown’s School Days, which my mother bought for me at Woolworth’s in Limerick for sixpence.
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