Francis Jock About Me Page at Helium

i am against Censorship of the Internet, Banning Books, and Burning Books of any kind for any reason.

My passion is ...

Writing and Music

I know too much about ...

Electronics engineering, working in Indian Country

My parents always told me ...

Good times are coming, if not we'll have to go out and get one

My childhood ambition ...

Flight and Space Travel

My favorite memory ...

The moment I fell in love with my wife.

Why I write ...

Freedom to express myself, relate my experiences and observations about life.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Story Engineering

My first job ...

Drummer in a Rock & Roll Band! \O/

My best moment ...

Opening a Child Care Center for Native American Children

My inspiration ...

My High School Teachers

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Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain: 6 of 8

Huckleberry Finn's adventures begin after he and his imaginative and irrepressible boyhood friend Tom Sawyer come into a tidy sum of money. Naturally, money and success attract evil, and soon enough evil arrives in the form of his father, a deadbeat, drunken derelict of a man with no hope of redemption, and no ambition beyond finding a way to get his next bottle of whiskey. After being imprisoned and abused by his father, Huck devises a clever plan to escape by faking his death in a way that his friend Tom would be proud of. The rising Mississippi river delivers the means of escape in the ...
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