In Mark Twain’s famous Novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an exciting story that is told by a 13-year-old boy who ventures into a perilous expedition down the daunting Mississippi River on a puny wooden raft. The story's sensationalism sometimes makes Huck's journey seem unbelievable. Throughout his novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain uses several rhetorical strategies to portray the institution of slavery in America during the 1850s.
To start off, Mark Twain published his book, the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, twenty years after the civil war. Through the innocence of Huck, Mark Twain attacks racism, slavery, hypocrisy, and injustice during one of the most embarrassing and dishonorable periods in American history. In this novel a number of main characters epitomize typical slave owners and their attitudes toward the servitude of another human being. These people are racists who show the worst of what society has to offer. Through the use of irony, Twain frequently satires these characters and their treatment of slaves. Twain ridicules their contradictory behavior and conspicuous lifestyles.
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When she treats her slave Jim as a commodity rather than a human being Miss Watson displays the brutality of a typical slave owner. After buying him from a local farm, she tears Jim away from his family. When Miss Watson sells him to a trader in the Deep South, Jim's hope of reuniting with his family disappears. When Jim sees his fate he decides to run away down the Mississippi River. There he sees Huck who is in search of freedom. The Widow Douglas preaches a moral paradox. She dictates a strict moral doctrine by force-feeding Huck lessons in "civilized ways." Meanwhile, she fails to recognize the obvious inhumanity of slavery right in front of her and goes along with the status