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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

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History has proven itself again and again with the simple fact that social classes dictate how human lives are treated. The major aspects in life are directly impacted by what social class someone is in. This dictates many things including who this person affiliates himself with and what kind of quality life that person will live. This is very evident in Antebellum South. Slavery is at its peak in this time, and half the population are slaves. In the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi River, and encounter a lot of the aspects of the Antebellum South. Because of the society Huck has grown up in, he often feels that he is superior to his traveling companion, Jim. Throughout the story, Twain creates a division, that widens as the story evolves, between how Huck views Jim and how the reader views Jim as a person. This theme happens in almost every part of the book and it is very clear that Huck underestimates Jim.

Jim is a runaway slave that Huck is helping, and this leads Huck to underestimate him, even though Huck acknowledges the fact that Jim is smart multiple times. Jim is presented in the beginning of the book as at most, a side character. No one really expects anything amazing out of him, including Huck and the reader. But as the adventure picks up, the views of Jim from Huck and the reader quickly divide. Mark Twain separates himself from the book altogether on the first page and the idea is

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