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Book Brick for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain was about Huckleberry Finn and Jim adventure to escape civilization. Huckleberry is running away from his father and civilization, while Jim is a runaway slave. They both plan to escape to the North. The theme of this novel is you cannot have a civilized society with slavery. But to further understand the book it is helpful to know about a slave’s life during this time period to understand where there family is coming from.

The conflict of this novel is Huck wants to be free from social rules but struggles to turn Jim in because he knows it is not the right thing to do. Miss Watson adopts Huck at the beginning of this story. She is very strict and thinks that Huck has no manners. She makes him go to school and teaches him to be “civilized”. Huckleberry does not like this. One day he finds out that his violent and usually drunk dad is in town. His dad takes him to his cabin and forces him to go back to the old ways and forgot what he learns. Huck decides to fake his own death in order to escape civilization. He meets a runaway slave on the island called Jim. They decide to rob an abounded steamboat but find robbers or on it. They decide to take the robbers boat after they shoot someone. Little does Huck know but that person happened to be his father. During this time Huck changes dramatically. He realizes that slavery is wrong after Jim tells him that he was separated from his family. He also realizes that slaves are just as human as he is. Because of this he respects Jim more and his attitude toward slaves changes. When they are traveling they meet a group of con artists and they join them. The two cons tell them that ...

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.... Slavery was the bread and butter of the South’s economy. This information explains the attitude towards slaves that Huck showed towards Jim in the beginning of the book and explains a lot of things about Jims life and why he would want to run away.

This book was originally written during the 1800s. This is actually when slavery was happening. By writing this book Mark Twain was saying that slavery cannot exist in a civilized society. He was an abolitionist and probably changed peoples opinions about slaves after reading this book. I found this book very interesting and a good read. It lives up to its name as a classic. Although it does start out slow. This book is also very informative on how people lived back then. It was also interesting to hear people talk the way they did back then. I would recommend this book to anyone that is not blind and can read.