Huck Finn Man's Inhumanity Towards Man

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Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the few novels of his time that actually tried to protest the wrongs that where happening. The main theme of Huckleberry Finn is “man’s inhumanity toward man”. Throughout the whole book though twain used satire, which pokes fun at the crimes of others in an attempt to help society see the wrongs that it has and fix them. Many of the immoralities stated in the book had either happened to Twain or he was a witness to them in his own time. His life experiences proved him with everything he needed to show the corruption in the southern society in the 19th century. Mark Twain chose each one of his characters to show an evil, Huck Finn, Pap Finn, and the Grangerfords and the Shepherdson’s.
Huck Finn was an uneducated, powerless, uncultured, twelve year old boy. Huck was a white boy who was friends with a black boy named Jim. …show more content…

Twain used the Grangerfords and Shepherdson’s to reproduce the scenes he used to see occur on the Quarles and Hannibal farms during his childhood. Twain believed that innocent people died for nothing. Twain uses Buck Grangerfords to show this because following buck killing Harney Shepherdson huck asked “did you want to hill him buck? Well I bet I did. What did he do to you? Him? He never done nothing to me. Well what did you want to kill him for? Why nothing-only its on account of the feud.” Twain used buck to show that just because of some silly petty arguments many kids and wives and husbands where killed over something that could have been resolved with just words, or compromise. Twain tried his hardest to ridicule the aristocrats of that time. The fact that a “romeo and Juliet” happened between a Shepherdson and a Grangerfords, which would seem to be ordinary, led to a complete massacre of both families. In addition buck said that this had happened many time before and it was going to keep

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