The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most critically acclaimed and revered novels of the 20th century, written by Mark Twain, the novel is also considered to be one of the greatest American novels of all time. Mark Twain was a prominent American author born in Florida, Missouri in the midst of the Gilded Age and the progressive era in 1835, he would later die of a heart attack in 1910. Aside from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain also wrote several other novels among which the most important was the initial book in the “The Adventures of “ series, which consisted of only two books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the novel would also become a cult classic later on. Twain had a strong resentment against prejudice and racism, a sentiment which is blatantly present in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel depicts a young and reckless teenager, presumably thirteen or fourteen, who experiences a drastic moral development regarding his perspective on society or as Twain himself described it, ”It is a novel where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat”.

The Adventures of Huckleberry finn is short anecdote which describes Huckleberry Finn’s incredible adventure across the deep south along with a fugitive slave, named Jim, who has just recently escaped from his former owner and plans to escape from clutches of slavery even if it means traversing the racially divided southern region of the United States.