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In Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain develops the plot into
Huck and Jim's adventures allowing him to weave in his criticism of society. The two main
characters, Huck and Jim, both run from social injustice and both are distrustful of the civilization
around them. Huck is considered an uneducated backwards boy, constantly under pressure to
conform to the "humanized" surroundings of society. Jim a slave, is not even considered as a real
person, but as property. As they run from civilization and are on the river, they ponder the social
injustices forced upon them when they are on land.
These social injustices are even more evident when Huck and Jim have to make landfall, and this
provides Twain with the chance to satirize the socially correct injustices that Huck and Jim
encounter on land. The satire that Twain uses to expose the hypocrisy, racism, greed and injustice
of society develops along with the adventures that Huck and Jim have. The ugly reflection of
society we see should make us question the world we live in, and only the journey down the river
provides us with that chance.
Throughout the book we see the hypocrisy of society. The first character we come across with
that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior,
but Huck doesn't understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a
thing when they don't know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck
about Heaven, he decides against trying to go there, "...she was going to live so as to go the good
place. Well, I couldn't see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I
wouldn't try for it." (3) The comments made by Huck clearly show Miss Watson as a hypocrite,
scolding Huck for wanting to smoke and then using...
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A, August 21, 2008
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