Mark Twain is one of the famous realists and satirists in the American literature. He is the author of numerous short stories, novels, pamphlets, and articles. One of the most famous works of Mark Twain is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
This novel captures the life of the American society in the 1940’s of the XIX century. The events in this story have not crank deep into conflict that led the country through two decades of civil war, but despite of the visible world it reflects many of the problems of American society. The issues of the novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is not limited to the issue of slavery in African-American population, it is much deeper and more varied. The attention is drawn to the fact that Mark Twain in
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During 1940’s covering for a slave was considered as a big crime. In carrying out the dream of freedom and happiness, Huck Finn (protagonist) helps Jim (African American slave) to escape. But in the same time Huck is hiding from his drunken father, and too strict order of life in the house of the widow Douglas.
Conscience “tells” Huck to turn in the slave, because Jim is legal property of Miss Watson; and helping him to escape is no better than a thief. But in the soul of Huck's conscience “wakes up” the other conscience, the one that he did not know before, which is deeper than any prejudice. Huck “hears” the voice of universal conscience. It is so imperious and strong, that he cannot resist. Huck wants to turn Jim in, but he cannot. He is ready to consider himself as a thief, a criminal, a lost man, but he is not able to transcend the deep, true conscience.
The choice that is made in the sixteenth chapter can be considered as a real feat. Huck knows what price he will pay for harboring black. Now that he and Jim slipped Cairo, their way lies farther to the South , to the most severe slave states. Their position is almost hopeless, because if they will get caught not only Jim , but Huck himself will expect a quite sad