Huckleberry Finn's Relationship

In Mark Twains’ novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Mr. Twain sets the novel in the time before the abolition of slavery despite the fact the novel was published two decades after the Civil War in which slaves were liberated. During the course of the story there is the usage of the “n” word along with the description of racism and how it affected people at the time. Twain does all of these things to explicitly portray society as how it actually was back then. The novel published in 1885 could have been set in 1885, but why wasn’t it? Why did Twain decide to set it decades previous to the publishing and before the Civil War? Well the answer is rather simple. The whole purpose for doing is, is to shed light on how cruel and twisted

In the beginning, Huck and Fin, we off to an rough start for the fact the Huck almost pulled a prank on Jim, but as time goes on and fate intertwines their lives, their relationship blooms into a friendship, through the shenanigans that they get into in their trip to make Jim a free slave. Throughout the whole story up until the very end, Huck is presented with the dilemma of continuing his friendship with Jim and making him a freeman and thus breaking the law or following society’s ideas and standards and ratting out Jim only to be sent back into servitude and be punished for running away as well as possibly being sold over and over again. Huck in the end decides their friendship is worth more than law, one could say this is an early example of civil disobedience. Next we have Huck’s dad’s reaction to African Americans, he is portrayed as typical White man at the time with a problem of abuse and alcoholism. He is made to be what society was like and is sometimes like today from time to time. Now society, the biggest idea was that slaves were not human or people, but only a commodity to be sold and bought. Society felt the need to educate slavery through servitude and put them in their rightful place. Obviously, they were wrong and has to change with the time, because that ideology is extremely