The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2
In less than two years the twentieth century will come to anamazing finale. Racism, prejudiced feelings and hate almost no longer exist. These changes can be attributed to the education people now have by reading such novels as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain addresses these issues of racism, slavery and education in a humorous, almost childish way, yet the effective themes are clearly visible. Twain utilizes Huck Finn and Jim as the ideal characters because they are the ones at the end of the novel who realize slavery is wrong. Mark Twain establishes the ideals by portraying them through the protagonists and criticizes the failure to live up to them by portraying them through the Prejudice can be observed throughout the novel by the way the other characters treat Huck. Twain portrays Huck as a average boy of his time, being mischievous, adventurous and funny. The society Huck lives in labels him "uncivilized" because he has an abusive, drunk father. "... by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand
injustices just as Miss Watson did when she set Jim free. ideals fail. One lesson the reader gets is if a child who goes by the Watson- she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she ashamed she ever was going to sell him down the river, and said so; and messages in the novel, which would explain why people banned and burned their mistakes. One way to solve this would by setting aside prejudice the novel. The people of Twains society did not like being told they racism and prejudice. Mark Twain was one of them. Through his simple appearance when really Huck turned out to be more civilized than any
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Approximate Word count = 759
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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