The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn focused on early to mid-1830s when slavery was still ongoing. Most books depicting this era usually strive away from accuracy and focus on trying to get an emotional reaction out of the reader. Although the story itself has emotional moments, like how Twain makes it clear that Huck is a boy who comes from the lowest levels of white society. His father is a drunk and a ruffian who disappears for months on end. Huck himself is dirty and frequently homeless. This creates a sense of pity from the readers about the character. The story tried to focus on the moral compass and how broken it was back then by exposing the hypocrisy of slavery, demonstrates how racism distorts the oppressors as much as it does those