In Iran I had these exact 2 books. I never understood why Tom was spelled Toom and why Huck who was a homeless street boy looked so polished and innocent. I was given the Huckleberry Finn book first and later the Tom Sawyer one. Just prior to the school year I received a book in Persian, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. On the cover, it pictured him sitting on a river bank with light wavy hair and a straw hat on. He looked much different than I had pictured him. He seemed too feminine as opposed to the street thug that I had envisioned him as. I tried reading the book a few times and while each time that I started from scratch I made progress, going beyond my last quitting point, it would be a few years before I managed to finish it beginning to end, all 403 pages. One thing I noticed during my many attempts at reading it was that as I flipped through the pages while the odd pages were on the left and the even ones on the right, however, they would gradually switch and ...