Twain liked to display the trait if ingenuity in Huck. This should not surprise the reader, the whole book is through the eyes of Huck, but let me explain further. We learn that when Huck is kidnapped by his father he was able to escape on a canoe and while doing so was able to make his escape appear as though he had been kidnapped and murdered. Eventually, even more evidence of ingenuity is displayed when Huck and Jim wanted to get some information from

"It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I

There is a good argument for those who say Twain did not want to change the world with this book. Taking the issue of racism, Twain was writing this book after slavery was abolished and therefore could reasonably see the direction the country was moving and what the popular thoughts may be in the future. I believe, however, Twain was far before his time and deserves all the respect he gets as one of America's greatest writers.

was letting ON to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, . . . but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

Racism, and Twain's approach to racism, is another topic which can be a paper in itself. We see in Jim a very complexed character who shows emotions that seem to have been restricted to whites at the time. One such, the reader sees evidence of, was when Jim and Huck were on the raft and Jim was sitting and tells Huck about his family. Huck was surprised that Black people love their family as much as white people do. Furthermore, Jim gets angry with Huck when he pretended the fog was a dream.

Indeed, the trait of greed is easily recognizable in the characters of the Duke and the King. Also, we see they were willing to do anything to cheat people out of their money and property. It was only because Huck was bit with some morality bug that they did not take everything from the Wilks family who had just lost their father. The Duke and the King, wanting to take all the property, stay an extra night giving Huck an opportunity to take the money in the hopes it could be returned.

HUCK FINN." (168)

The reader quickly sees that Twain has his white characters embarrass themselves when they speak condescendingly toward black people. Likewise, the following quote shows this attitude toward blacks as Pap said while drunk:

"There was a free nigger there from Ohio. . . They said he was a p'fessor in college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could vote when he was at home" (44)

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Approximate Word count = 2157
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)