If I hadn’t read James first I don’t know if I would’ve fully appreciated what Twain was trying to do with the themes of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The stream on consciousness of Huck as the narrator and the vernacular of almost the characters definitely made it a little harder of a read to fully grasp, but with poignant moments of humanity, empathy, and the overall story of young boy really understanding his place and the place of others in this world (whether their placement was deserving or not), I can say this is a classic tor a reason.