Mark Twain decided to set his famous novel, Huckleberry Finn, in a time before the abolition of slavery. However, he actually published the novel in 1885, two decades after the end of slavery. Twain might’ve done this in order to show people a point of view through a slave. Also, he set his novel on the basis of the matter of slavery. Lastly, Twain chose to do this in order for his character, Huck to mature through his experiences and his thoughts. At the end, Huck decided that even though the community accepts slavery, slavery itself is an immoral value, and should not be practiced. In Twains novel, Huckleberry Finn, Twain based it around slavery, and showing life through a slave’s eye. Even though the narrator wasn’t a slave, the slave Jim, still played a major role in the novel. Jim is a slave, who has been treated inhumanely by almost all whites, he wants to be free and join his family once again. When Jim and Huck escape, the readers witness an opportunity to see slavery through slave’s point of view. On the travel down the Mississippi river, Jim opens up to Huck and he tells his story. We hear Jim’s heart …show more content…
He is exposed to many different forms of slavery and inhumane treatment. At the beginning, he doesn’t understand slavery. Through Jims story, he develops some feelings to it, however he doesn’t oppose it, yet. Then when the Phelps’s take in Jim, Huck thinks it’s a good thing because he believes they will treat Jim well. However, that is not the case. When Huck finds out that they have whipped Jim, Huck begins to oppose slavery. His thoughts mature and at the end he is against it. I believe this is the reason that Mark Twain decided to set the novel in a time before the abolition of slavery. However, he published it two decades after slavery. By doing so, he expressed the point, through Huck, that slavery is morally wrong and should not be accepted, just because the community accepts