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Huckleberry Finn Rhetorical Analysis
One of the greatest writers of all time I believe is Mark Twain. Mark Twain uses precise diction to focus on slavery and mistreatment. He shows it by showing Huckleberry Finn runs away because mistreatment by his father, and Jim runs away with Huckleberry Finn to not be a slave because he was going to be sold. His famous book of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a well known and deserved book to be placed in the canon of Great Books but some people take the book really offensive but they really shouldn’t take it offensive, he is a really smart individual who uses his word choice to show his perspective on many things, and people should value his piece of work because we can relate his work from the past to even the present. Regardless of the fact that Huckleberry Finn ran away look at the facts he felt like he was he didn’t want his dad in his life was because of the absence of love and care from him. His dad never was there for him because he had many issues. Then when his dad found out that his son struck gold he decided to come back in his son's life. His dad in general was ignorant, abusive, racist, and an alcoholic. It is the worst possible combination as a parent, and even to be the worst parent he decided to not deal with his son he locked him in his room. Huckleberry then …show more content…
His companion’s name is Jim. Jim was a slave so he didn’t have a last name, and his slave owner is Miss Watson. He ends up hearing one day that Miss Watson was going to sell him. He didn’t want to end up being sold so him and Huckleberry Finn decided to run away. In the bright side it showed 2 people of different races can work together for the best to make each others life better. (I’ve never seen cases like these in person but even till present time there is discrimination, against colored people and they should be treated like any other individual to make the United States a safer environment for

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