Mark Twain made a poor decision on how he ended his book. Many people criticize Twain for the chapters he wrote after chapter thirty-one. Some critics consider these last chapters as tiresome, and vulgar compared to the rest of the book. I’d have to agree, and say the same about these last chapters. There are certain examples to support why these chapters are so pointless and not likely to “spark” your mind while reading. Nobody can write a perfect story, but there are mistakes that could’ve been avoided by Twain in the ending of his book. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, due to the changing of Huck as a character, the appearance of Tom, and Twain's betrayal on Jim; are strong reasons that these chapters shouldn’t be in the book. Mark Twain makes Huck a different character in the last chapters, then what he was throughout the book. Towards the end of The Adventures of Huckleberry …show more content…
Throughout the book Twain shows how the black man and the white man are equal. This is something that he tries to stick out to the reader throughout the book. At this point in the book he has shown that Jim is equal to a white man. As Tom is doing his plan to get Jim out, Jim is going along with it and never steps up to say anything to Tom. Huck notices and says, “Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin…”(Twain 214). It makes you wonder why Jim doesn’t just say something to Huck and Tom? He doesn’t say anything because he knows a black man's word means nothing in a white society. Twain has totally switched what he has beat into the reader's head the whole story. He goes from writing about how blacks and whites are equal, to a white man being more powerful; the weighing scale just completely flips. This doesn’t make any sense to put into the book, it just confuses the reader and doesn’t fit accordingly to the