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Adventures
Of Huck Finn By Twain

The entire plot of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is rooted on intolerance
between different social groups. Without prejudice and intolerance The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would not have any of the antagonism or
intercourse that makes the recital interesting. The prejudice and intolerance
found in the book are the characteristics that make The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn great. The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is
Samuel Langhorn Clemens, who is more commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain.
He was born in 1835 with the passing of Haley’s comet, and died in 1910 with
the passing of Haley’s comet. Clemens often used prejudice as a building block
for the plots of his stories. Clemens even said,” The very ink in which
history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” There are many other instances
in which Clemens uses prejudice as a foundation for the entertainment of his
writings such as this quote he said about foreigners in The Innocents Abroad:
“They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better
than they pronounce.” Even in the opening paragraph of The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Clemens states, “Persons attempting to find a motive in this
narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be
banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” There were
many groups that Clemens contrasted in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The
interaction of these different social groups is what makes up the main plot of
the novel. For the objective of discussion they have been broken down into five
main sets of antithetic parties: people with high levels of melanin and people
with low levels of melanin, rednecks and scholarly, children and adults, men and
women, and finally, the Sheperdson’s and the Grangerford’s. Whites and
African Americans are the main two groups contrasted in the novel. Throughout
the novel Clemens portrays Caucasians as a more educated group that is higher in
society compared to the African Americans portrayed in the novel. The cardinal
way that Clemens portrays African Americans as obsequious is through the
colloquy that he assigns them. Their dialogue is composed of nothing but broken
English. One example in the novel is this excerpt from the conversation between
Jim the fugitive slave, and Huckleberry about why Jim ran away, where Jim
declares, “Well you see, it ‘uz dis way. Ole missus-dat’s Miss Watson-she
pecks on...

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