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His decision that Jim is worthy of the same consideration as any other man is not only a sign of Huck's growth, but a direct statement that Twain was making to the people reading his book in a very racially divisive time.
Twain also makes many broader statements about humanity in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The book is full of many characters who take advantage of others, like the Duke and the King, people who hate and fight senselessly, like the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons, and even honorable seeming men like Colonel Sherburn, who despite an eloquent speech about honor and the common man's cowardice shot and killed a defenseless drunk. Huck has a major epiphany when he sees the Duke and King, who have betrayed Huck and everyone else they met, tarred and feathered. Despite their actions against him and their obvious lack of regard for others, Huck feels sick at the sight and comments that "humans can be awful cruel to one another" (254). Slavery is one of the clearest example of man's cruelty to man, and is the central and most clear example used in the novel to illustrate the injustice inherent to the maltreatment of any human being. Jim is not portrayed as a perfect character, though he is in no way as morally corrupt as the Duke and the King, but he is still a man, just as they are. Huck applies true democracy to his relationships and eventually to his beliefs; this was something, Twain felt the people of his time needed to see.
It is fairly clear to see how Twain's use of slavery in...
Another less obvious interpretation of Twain's use of slavery in the novel is as a metaphor for society. The civilization that Huck drifts though along the Mississippi is trapped in shackles of its own making; people are untrusting and untrustworthy, prone to violence and too mindful of how other people behave and believe, without being following their own admonitions. It is not until Jim is freed by Miss Watson's death that the novel is able to resolve, and everyone moves on with their lives. Perhaps Twain is suggesting that the world would not truly change until the older generation passed on. Whether or not this was his intention, Twain's use of slavery in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is definitely meant as a message for his readers hat caring for one another is our primary responsibility.
Huck even sounds more like Jim than the other characters in the work in terms of his dialect, and the fact that he pretends Jim is his father underlines the degree to which the two of them are bound in a relationship. The NAACP national headquarters' current position endorses the book: "You don't ban Mark Twain-you explain Mark Twain! To study an idea is not necessarily to endorse the
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a classic that intertwines child innocence, and adventure together like the meandering Mississippi River upon whose shores the adventures take place. When reading such a novel that also interplays social classes and nuances of the period, a variety of literary critical styles can be used to fully understand the scope of style, tone and content. The novel starts off where "The Adventures
Mark Twain's use of Social Commentary and Satire was received by African-Americans How African-Americans received mark twain's use of social commentary and satire Mark Twain (real name Samuel L. Clemens) is famous for his masterpiece Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In this essay, I examine the reception of African-Americans to satire and social commentary within the work. This is, therefore, a question
Mark Twain's realism in fully discovered in the novel The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, book which is known to most of readers since high school, but which has a deeper moral and educational meaning than a simple teenage adventure story. The simplicity of plot and the events that are described in the book look to be routine for provincial life of Southerners in the middle of the 19th century. But
Conclusion The research showed that the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stands out as one of Mark Twain's best works, and it is not surprising that so much has been written about the book over the years. In many ways, Twain is like Benjamin Franklin among major American historical figures. Both of these individuals stand out as being geniuses of their respective eras, for example, and both of them contributed much to
man shows media has ever produced and, in any case, the original product of the genre, Mark Twain Tonight! with Hal Holbrook had an estimated thirty million viewers tuned in on March 6, 1967 and the show itself has already been performed, according to Hal Holbrook himself, for more than 2,000 times In my opinion, it is by far the best impression of actually meeting Mark Twain that one may receive