Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain and was first published in the United Kingdom. The novel follows the events that materialize in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, an additional novel written by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in short, encompasses a young boy in the 1840s named Huckleberry Finn, who later runs away from home and floats down the Mississippi River. Along the way, he meets a runaway slave named Jim and the two undertake a series of adventures. In the novel, numerous social groups are represented, as well as in abounding ways. A social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another and share similar characteristics. For instance, the social group of African Americans.

A member of this group would be Jim, the runaway slave that Huckleberry meets on his voyage down the Mississippi River. African Americans talked differently than most people in the novel. The dialogue of these African Americans is composed mainly of broken English. An example of this would be when Jim and Huckleberry were discussing the reason Jim ran away; where Jim declares, “Well you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus-dat's Miss Watson-she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she woudn' sell me down to Orleans." Although this is the spelling of how many African Americans from the boondocks used to speak, Twain only associated the argot with Blacks and not Whites throughout the novel. There is not a single sentence in the novel where African Americans do not talk this way. This is just one example of how the author, Mark Twain, expresses different social groups through different

In the novel, most did not care about their remarks towards African Americans, mainly because racism was not as big of a deal as it was later in time. Mark Twain includes quite a few racist comments throughout the novel. The comments made by other characters in the book are usually geared toward Jim, the runaway slave. Even though the topics mentioned include some racist remarks, there is even more racism throughout the novel. “...here was a free nigger there from Ohio—a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane—the awful- est old gray-headed nabob in the State. And what do you think? They said he was a p'fessor in a college, and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could VOTE when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was 'lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I'll never vote agin.” Pap makes this racist remark in the beginning of the novel. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and