Human Darknesess

he book Huckleberry Finn is a satirical/fictitious book written by Mark Twain as a means of exposing a southern society and it’s culture of racism slavery and so on. The story revolves around a young boy and a runaway slave that are both running from something that haunts. Throughout the story there are many motifs of slavery racism and many others in that category all shown through the eyes of a young boy and an older slave. Through thick and thin the two stay close together as a means of comfort and companionship. Jim being a runaway slave and Huck a young white boy of no higher status, but still higher than the slave takes a long journey along the Mississippi River to a road to freedom that they only feel is true freedom from the chains

Much of Twain’s writing identifies him as a humorist. However, he reveals his pessimistic side as a satirist in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was published 20 years after the Civil War. Through the innocence of Huck’s narrative, Twain attacks slavery, racism, hypocrisy, and injustice during one of the most shameful and embarrassing periods in American history.

The Pre-Civil War novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is about a young boy named Huck. His mother is dead and his father is an alcoholic. Huck is now being raised by the Widow Douglass, a woman who is attempting to raise Huck to be a successful, educated member of society, despite his many protests. Because of the violence and forced conformity, Huck runs away and unites with a runaway slave named Jim. Instead of turning Jim in, Huck decides to help him break free from slavery. By doing this, he is going against the societal norm and refusing to follow certain rules just because that’s what everyone else is doing. As they run away together, Huck begins to notice and understand the common stereotypes within society. He rebels and goes against society in his attitudes and philosophies. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain explores why humans follow ridiculous ideas just because they are the societal norms by pointing out the hypocrisy within society’s ideals, incorporating satirical examples about religion, education, and slavery into his novel.

In his book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain writes about his view of America. Twain utilizes different characters in his book to convey the state of society during his time. Each character essential in elaborating Twain's message comes from a different background and serves as a representation of various people in their respective social class. Only an individual's thoughts and actions can accurately embody their true notions about society. Considering this rationale, readers must understand Huck's profound character to grasp Twain's perception of the fundamental hypocrisy and moral confusion of American society.

Throughout time, it has been socially dangerous for someone to move against the norm of society. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck is considered an outcast for these very reasons. The values of American society in the nineteenth century are illuminated by the character of Huck Finn by his refusal to conform to those expectations.

As the reader has come to realize, Huck is the most civil of the vital characters introduced in this story. Mark Twain explains his actual opinions on society and civilization in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book is a great, classic piece of literature that should be used for generations to come to explain the importance of being a well-rounded person. Huck is compared, in civility, to Pap, the duke and king, and Tom Sawyer. As it is plain to see, Huck happens to be a very sophisticated person.

Before any external forces unleash their influence, a person is born into this world with a clean slate untouched by the prevailing attitudes that shape modern society. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the character Huck is a boy who has grown up wild and for the most part free from the rules that govern the society in which he lives. Due to the unfortunate circumstances of an absent mother and a drunkard father, Huck has had the task of raising himself which has contributed to the development of his own moral code. Although there is plenty of violence and action abound in the novel, there is equal excitement to be had in the moral choices Huck encounters along his journey due to the potential danger in which his decisions consistently place him. In his novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates suspenseful and dramatic instances by emphasizing the internal moral struggle and danger sprung from the difficult choices his main character is forced to make.

Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the world’s most acclaimed books. Twain accomplishes this with his extraordinary power of humor, his use of dialect, and by creating complex and unique characters. Developing his characters is one of the greatest assets he has in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A character that exemplifies this most is Huck Finn, first appearing as rouge, but later transforming into a character with high moral values.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, can largely be considered a critique of society during Twain's time, and a satirical attack on the post-Reconstruction society in which Twain lived. In his story, a young boy named Huck Finn faces a daunting moral conundrum as he experiences a series of adventures while on the run with a runaway slave named Jim. As he spends more time with Jim, Huck soon realizes that Jim is not that different from him, and contrary to what he has been led to believe thus far, Jim has emotions and is just as human as any other white person. This comes as a shock to Huck, who exclaims that it "isn't natural" that Jim, a black man, cares just as much about his children and family as any white man. The fact that Jim cries and laments over his children missing him, and expresses grief over hitting his deaf daughter Lizabeth, forces Huck to the realization that Jim is a human. Huck's recognition of Jim's humanity goes against everything that he has been taught, and is contrary to how most white people in his society see blacks.

The use of humor in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is crucial to keeping the readers attention. As, Huckleberry Finn goes on the reader sees how crazy some of the stuff people believe in is. Huckleberry Finn is a novel about the adventures of a thirteen year old boy in the Mississippi River. The novel criticizes such things as : religion, racism, and superstitions. Mark Twain uses exaggeration , satire, and irony to criticise these things.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel by Mark Twain, tells the story of a young man who runs away from home. While on the run, Huck comes into contact with a slave fleeing from his owner. Huck also lives with this family, so he and the slave, Jim, have a history. Huck and Jim team up and make their get away and head for the free states. On the way, they battle storms, con men, suspicious people, and their own personal morals. Throughout his journey, Huck finds himself conflicted about behavior society deems acceptable. He battles a society which views slavery as a norm and relentlessly attempts to “sivilize” him. Twain uses the character of Huck Finn to illustrate flaws in 1800s American society. While society can have a profound influence on an individual, likewise, there are times when the individual must break free of society’s dictates and determine his own values and beliefs.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “The great American epic,'; may be one of the most interesting and complex books ever written in the history of our nation. This book cleverly disguises many of the American ideals in a child floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a black slave. On the outside of the story, one can see an exciting tale of heroism and adventure; however, that is not all. The book shows Mark Twain’s idea of the classic American idealism, consisting of freedom, morality, practicality, and an alliance with nature. Twain manages to show all this while poking fun at the emergence of the “robber barons,'; better know as the big business of the late nineteenth century. Twain portrays many different American values in this book by expressing them through one of the many different characters. The character that Twain chose to represent morality and maturation is none other than Huck Finn himself. Throughout the novel one sees many signs of change. The setting is constantly fluctuating, except for the constant Mississippi, and Huck and Jim, a runaway slave, under-go many changes themselves. At the end of the novel Huck Finn shows a large change in his level of maturity than he had exhibited in the beginning of the book.

Most of Mark Twain’s representation of the novel and attitude was towards race and racism. Throughout the story, the matter in question is whether Huckleberry Finn is a racist boy or an intelligent child excited to question the prejudice principles of white society. While Huckleberry Finn is a novel obsessed with race, however, it is also a book infatuated with the absence of character.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often considered to be Twain's masterpiece. It combined his raw humor with startlingly mature material to create a novel that directly attacked many of the traditions the South held dear. Huckleberry Finn is the main character, and it is through his eyes that the South is revealed and judged. His companion, a runaway slave named Jim, provides Huck with friendship and protection during their journey along the Mississippi.