Huck Finn and Lost

The end of Huckleberry Finn reminded me of the end of the TV show Lost, which I watched on Netflix. It was a great show until the last season when you realized that the island they are stranded on is actually purgatory and that no matter what they do they can't truly escape and so in theory the whole story doesn't really matter. When Huck Finn ended I felt like none of the story actually mattered.

I wish it had ended with Huck going and getting his money buying Jim's family out of slavery and then they all went to live in either the territories or in the northern states and they would live happily ever after with plenty of adventure.