Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gives a realistic view of the american society in the early 1800s by revealing the moral journey of Huck Finn and his slave friend Jim. Huck Finn reveals the values of the society he lived by showing his care and friendship toward Jim although he is a slave. Also, the journey, situations, and danger the author Mark Twain puts them through in the novel.

To begin with, Huck’s relationship with Jim as a friend is one of the reason why Huck is considered an outcast and this illuminates the values of his society. An american dream in the 1800s was “freedom of man,” Jim considered not human and not free displays the corrupt values of the society Huck and Jim lived in. Slavery was a part of life in south of the United States. Jim and other slaves were seen as being lower in status or quality than the white people even though a white person could have been possibly a colored person, but Huck thought of Jim as a friend not a slave. A little percentage of people in the South were alike to Huck and his relations and consideration toward slaves.

Second, Mark Twain satirically portrays organized religion and the society's morals in the novel. Huck being a Anti-Hero in the novel, he did not want to attend church or school, but in the Bible it says, “Everyone is God's children.” If everyone is seen as God’s children then why were slaves treated as not human. The discrimination toward the slaves in the 1800s reveals the realistic society in the the nineteenth century. Next, the idea of civilization was simply defined as a city, town, or locations. the idea of civilization for Huck and Jim was to build a sanctuary from civilization upon their raft, but the situations, cruelty, and danger they are tangled in on shore make it difficult for Huck and Jim. Jim was a runaway slave yet he felt free on the raft, to say or do as any white man. ‘“We said there warn’t no home like a raft after all. other places seem to cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy comfortable on a raft.”’This quote shows how the raft symbolizes freedom, hope, and equality. Also, it shows Huck as a Anti-Hero again because of his feelings toward “civilized.” Huck and Jim’s adventure on the raft shows a great understanding of the society back in the 1800s.

Lastly, Huck’s journey on the river gives a good sense of the high tolerance for slavery in the 1800s. Slaves were never free unless granted freedom from their owners. Slaves were on strict rule and had to work, but for Jim he felt he had all the freedom in the world on the raft. He knew on land he would be treated accordingly for the color of his skin. Slavery was a big part of american society back in the 1800s and Mark Twain does a great job exploiting the wrongs of slavery among other things in his novel. Jim was scared for his life so he fled his home and ran away to find