Mark Twain
Mark Twain, American humorist, writer, and Lecturer was known for his stories of adventures. Especially that of, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was first published in America in January 1885. It was banned from the Concord Public Library in 1885, the year of its publication. Huckleberry Finn ranks number five in the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, slavery seems to be one of the main conflicts between Huck and society. Mark Twain himself was not in big favor of slavery. Twain puts his thoughts into Huck's character. For instance, Huck becomes Jim's best friend even though Jim is a slave. Jim and Huck become very close throughout their adventure together. Jim protects Huck. In return Huck helps Jim to become a freed slave. They are both in similar situations only Huck is running from civilization and Jim is running from slavery. Huck begins to see the true side of Jim
Also in the novel, Mark Twain seems to focus a lot on money's place in society, a rather disdainful one at that. . Twain is quick to let us see that the real reason Miss Watson wanted Huck was because of his money. Twain shows us that society worshiped money more than anything else. The more money you had the better and higher up you were in society. Huck didn't worship money; he saw it as a luxury not a necessity. Throughout the whole novel Jim is trying to get more and more money. He did so; for the reason of freeing his family from slavery. Huck tries to stay as far away from money and civilization as possible. Mark Twain once suggested "Clothes make the man-Naked people have little or no influence in society." In this quote his is implying that if you don't have the clothes of a rich man, you won't ever be high in society. But you will be looked down upon, by those who do have riches. Twain also stated that, "Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, s
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