The Deeper Meanings Behind Huck Finn
Huck Finn Book Review In the novel The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain, Huck Finn who is a young boy encounters many different situations that represent flaws in society. For example, when Huck Finn was experiencing guilty feelings for freeing Jim who was a slave, Twain reveals the attitudes that people during that time had regarding slavery and African Americans. Huck did the right thing, yet he feels bad for what he did because society tells him that it is wrong. Additionally, when Huck met the duke and the king who tricked people to get money, Twain reveals the gullibility of the society when the audience believed in their act. Twain also comments on the gullibility of specifically the adults which is demonstrated when Huck is able to quickly realize that the “king” and the “duke” were not actually kings or dukes and that they were lying while the adults in the story, such as Jim and the churchgoers during their performance actually believed in their hoax. In a...