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“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is an astucious and vibrant American novel that cleverly uses humor to scathe a society that among other things, viewed one race of people as inferior to another. Through this veil of satire and conscious condemnation author Mark Twain(Samuel Clemens) establishes the most noble, courageous, moral and intelligent character in the book, In the form of Jim, the runaway slave. The story is littered with plenty of other characters that embody several of these characteristics but none do it so thoroughly, daringly and to the full extent of their respective definitions as Jim does. To understand why this is so and why Twain chose to make Jim the character he is, one needs to understand the text of the novel and Twain himself to grasp the reasoning for penning this character the way he did.
Mark Twain came into the world with Halley’s comet in 1835 and left the world with it in 1910. In between those years he became a foremost figure in American culture and America’s first great literary figure to reach and captivate a world-wide audience. Born in Florida, Missouri Mark Twain grew up in an environment where slavery was not only tolerated but lauded and held as righteous. Twain once wrote about his childhood days and his youthful view of slavery in his autobiography: “In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware that there was anything wrong about it. No one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind — and then the texts were read aloud to us to make the matter sure. (PBS, 3)”
His clinging to the societal norm of accepting slavery persisted in his youth for only a short time. In his autobiography, Twain recalls one of the first moments that view changed: “I vividly remember seeing a dozen black men...
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