What Are The Similarities Between Mark Twain And Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain was a famous american writer who wrote books based upon current events that happened throughout history. Some of his famous works included The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Throughout both of these books we see struggling men trying to decide what’s best for themselves morally or consciously. Huck was an important character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the first book to this sequel. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ends with the two characters, Tom and Huck finding a stash of gold that a couple of robbers hid in a cave. In Huckleberry Finn we see a strong portrayal of Racism and Slavery through the main character’s Huck and Jim. Huck struggles morally and consciously on whether or not he should help his African American friend Jim escape from slavery. This kind of help was unheard of during
“It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way” (15). Huck doesn’t want to apologize to the African American man but he does it anyways, it was unlikely for somebody to apologize to an African American man during this time. Through this quote we’re able to see that Huck is yes racist but a little bit less racist than any other character we’ve seen so far. Through Pap’s character portrayal, Twain shows the readers how much racism was implanted into the minds of the people during this time. Southerners had it their way or no way and weren’t really open to any other views. Huck, along with other kids his age were brought him to hate the African American race, they didn’t know why but they just knew that they weren’t supposed to like them. Throughout the book we’re able to see Huck be the first to question why they don’t like this