In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Twain juxtaposes different events showing differences in lifestyles during the time period. Twain does this by showing the differences of characters and how they react in different surroundings. He uses a variety of outlooks on society and its outlooks on the world. Twain also compares the different levels of education through the diversity of race. From those ideas, he compares the differences in economic class through the eyes of Huck. Mark Twain juxtaposes opposites in many ways and one of theses ways is through his belief on society. In the middle of the book Huck begins to second guess himself about if helping Jim is really a good idea or is it really a sin. Huck begins to explain, …show more content…
Huck sees the Grangerfords as rich people, but in reality the just make themselves look richer than they really are. Huck doesn’t see that the things they have are goty and in reality are cheap. Huck describes some things he sees as, ”And there was nice split-bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too-not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket.”(101) Huck thinks that the things, like the chair, are for the rich people because he has never seen them before. He has always lived in the low class and now he sees these new things, and automatically thinks they are rich. Twain also compares economic classes when Huck describes the rooms in Mary Jane's house. He calls them, “plain but nice….with all sort of knickknacks and jimcrackers around. The duke’s room was pretty small, but plenty good enough, and so was my chubby.” (171) There is nothing in this house that interests Huck, so to him the family of the dead Harvey doesn't have any money. But in reality they do have a large amount of money, but Huck can’t look past the physical things they have to realize that. Twain uses Hucks innocences to show readers how people easily assume how rich others are by the things they have. Twain also does this to show how people are always trying to make themselves look better than who they really