The book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a fictional story about a boy's adventure floating down the Mississippi River. This book is organized into 43 chapters each containing at least two events each which are written above the chapter number. The book contains many ideas and events but there are three main ideas portrayed throughout the book.

The first idea that is portrayed is how African Americans are treated in this ti

The impression of this time period that the author conveys is that of social differences and the roles of people in 18th century society. He distinctly shows the roles of the people through the different characters in the story. He portrays a runaway slave in Jim's character, a teen-age boy in Huck's character, a bum/drunk in Huck's father's character, a swindler in the king and duke, and an average person in "the woman" and her husband. All of these people not only portray different roles in 18th century society but they also are all linked with certain events associated with that type of person in that time period. This format vividly describes the different types of lifestyles and roles people held in the 18th century which deeply involves the reader into the book and makes him/her feel as if they where really there.

This book which is set in the 1800's is based in the pre-civil war time period. It does not seem to contradict the class text but it does support how our book portrays African Americans as being treated. As stated above the book portrays what the life of a slave would be like through the character of Jim and through other encounters with slaves throughout the story. These encounters vividly depict slaves as being treated as property and good for nothing but working. There are many instances where rewards for capturing a slave are mentioned showing how they are treated as property and should be returned to their rightful owner. This supports the impression of the time period portrayed by the authors of our text in that both tell of how slaves are treated as property.

The book portrays all blacks in the 1800's as being slaves. Some slaves just worked around peoples homes, some worked in the fields all day and some were runaways which where forced to travel at night and hide from whites during the day. An example of a runaway slave is portrayed in Jim's character. Jim travels with Huck and is constantly on the watch for whites that are out to catch him. He is portrayed as a very nice person who wouldn't hurt a soul, which probably wasn't the attitude of most African Americans at the time. This portrayal makes the reader think of the way African American where treated in the 18th century and wonder why we ever committed such illicit deeds.

The third main idea is that of what teen life might have been like in the 1800's. This idea is portrayed in the character Huckleberry Finn. Huck is a teen that had a deadbe

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