The book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is an undoubtedly controversial novel. Explores the idea of racism and slavery (among other topics) through a young white boy during slavery in the far south. Throughout the novel, Huckleberry Finn struggles with the idea of slavery and moral codes that are different from the ones he grew up with. He moves from the typical expected thought process of slavery to a new radical, almost abolitionist point of view. Twain uses anti-slavery satire to show how slavery is wrong, current social attitudes, and Huck's moral quest to demonstrate the need to question the social views of the time. The connection between the corrupt and/or criminal society Huck experienced and the acceptance of slavery shows how the satire in the book shows the abuses in slavery. Through the book, Twain shows that people who condone slavery may be murderers, thieves, or criminal drunkards. The Duke and the King are two excellent examples of this. After meeting Jim and Huck at the river, they try to trick Huck to collect the reward money. In chapter 26 the Duke also makes a comment expressing his quote from chapter 32 which shows that it is when Aunt Sally asks Huck if anyone is hurt or not. He says, "no mom, I just killed a nigga." Whites then represented blacks only as slaves; they were not even considered human but less than human. Twain does a good job of this through Aunt Sally's complete dismissal of the topic, instead opting to tell of a white man who had hurt himself in the same way. In addition to not being considered more than human, Twain also comments that slaves are only worth money. “Well, I guess! There is a reward of two hundred dollars on him. It's like collecting money on the street (page 31 paragraph 13).” The boy Huck meets on the street doesn't see Jim as one person, but as a bunch of people
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