By today’s social standards, being civilized means treating those around you with respect regardless of race, gender, or religion. By these standards, the most civil characters in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” would be Huck and Jim. However, if one were to base such a question on the acceptable social conduct of the 1830s, with its fixed social structure and racial hierarchy,
By today’s social standards, being civilized means treating those around you with respect regardless of race, gender, or religion. By these standards, the most civil characters in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” would be Huck and Jim. However, if one were to base such a question on the acceptable social conduct of the 1830s, with its fixed social structure and racial hierarchy,