The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain describes the

journey of a young boy and a runaway slave, Jim, up the Mississippi

River. One of the most important themes of the book is that society is

cruel. The book's tone also changes. Sometimes its serious, other

times its funny, even silly. The book is classic because the tone

surprises and intrigues the reader while the themes teach the reader

While Huck is on his journey he realizes that society is cruel. An

example of this would be when Buck tells Huck, "A man has a quarrel

with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills

him; then the other brothers on both sides goes for one another... and

by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud"(Twain

109). Pap, Huck's father, was very mean to everyone, but especially

Huck. Pap cannot read and does not want his son to be better than

himself. Pap doesn't like the fact that Widow Douglas is trying to

"civilize" him. Pap comes home every night and physically abuses

Huck. During the day Pap would lock Huck in the cabin until he

returned in order to keep Huck from escaping. Nothing can harm a

friend a pirate ever had"(Twain 133). Then he explodes into tears and

to separate and destroy a family. Jim decides that he would rather run

They go through towns and put on such plays as the Royal

he is Tom so that he can stay there to help Jim escape. Mark Twain is

so they take it. They claim to be Peter Wilkes's English brothers so

on down the river they stop at another small town where the King sells

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