Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses American history when most African-American characters were represented as dolts. Twain uses characters caught between colliding cultures, national, regional, ethics, and religion. Huck realizes that society’s morals are mishandle, Huck wants to follow his own morals. The novel takes place in the South where slavery is allowed. Huck questions the morals and ethics of people living in the South and then questions what he morally believes. Jim represents the need of freedom in the pre-civil war in the South. The high point is race meaning that racism is regional in the South, the moral confusion Huck faces throughout the book. The South was still struggling with racism and the…show more content…
Through Huck, Twain is exploring his own reservations about religion and its ties to the organization of slavery. It is not important that it is Miss Watson who owns Jim and not the Widow Douglas, and Huck continues to question religion and the rules of his society. Huck eventually decides that there are two kinds of destiny, and he would like to avoid Miss Watson's and the Widow Douglas describes their…show more content…
Huck had no option on religion he never rejected it but he never believe it in. Huck doesn’t stock in dead people so he loses interest in the story. There are two different sides to Huck. One is the subordinate, easily determine boy whom he becomes when under the "guide" of the racist and immoral Tom Sawyer. His persona surfaces is when he is on his own, thinking of his friendship with Jim and tormenting over which to trust: his heart or his conscience. When Huck's inner struggle with his own weak forces him to makes difficult and disputed choices, the reader sees a boy in torment of moral development. And it is, indeed, a struggle. Although Huck believes in the rules of racist and regional society in which he lives, a deeper part of him keeps making decisions that break those rules and will end up making a bad
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