In Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, Twain develops the plot into Huck and Jim's
adventures allowing him to weave in his criticism of society.
The two main characters, Huck and Jim, both run from
social injustice and both are distrustful of the civilization
around them. Huck is considered an uneducated backwards
boy, constantly under pressure to conform to the
"humanized" surroundings of society. Jim a slave, is not even
considered as a real person, but as property. As they run
from civilization and are on the river, they ponder the social
injustices forced upon them when they are on land. These
social injustices are even more evident when Huck and Jim
have to make landfall, and this provides Twain with the
chance to satirize the socially correct injustices that Huck
and Jim encounter on land. The satire that Twain uses to
expose the hypocrisy, racism, greed and injustice of society
develops along with the adventures that Huck and Jim have.
The......
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