The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain - 1773 Words

Knowing about Mark Twain’s work, personal life and family it is clear he is a champion of racial equality. During the most racial times of America he wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a book setting in a 1830s southern American society. Twains delivers the story with all the traditions and customs of an American society. Twain tries to show the wrongness in society, focusing racism and equality. By doing this Mark Twain and his work was both alleged to be racist. The irony is most of the reading public was unable to realize the irony that was used in the novel to attack racism. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a novel about a child’s hope in achieving freedom. It is a story of life and friendship, racism, quality†¦show more content†¦Like Huck Mark Twain viewed firsthand the use of slaves as a child. Growing up in a slave state his Father was a judge that traded slaves and convicted abolitionist. His uncle John Quarles owned slaves and having to live with him after his father’s death he seen firsthand how bad the treatment of slaves were. He witnessed a slave being brutally murdered. These experiences has created negative views for the culture causing him to reject it. Marrying a women who came from a family of abolitionist, naming a there son after one, and because of her meeting a lifelong friend Fredrick Douglass. He has been on record sharing quotes to the world displaying his views. From as early as the release date of the book in An 1853 Letter, Mark Twain Wrote: I Reckon I Had Better Black My Face, For In The se Eastern States, N***S Are Considerably Better Than White People. (Smiley)To as late as his release of his autobiography writing The class lines were quite clearly drawn and the familiar social life of each class was restricted to that class. He displays he is not racist and firmly believes in social equality. (Trilling) Literature containing African American main characters started being produced in the late 18th century. Before the civil war literature concentrated on stories or people who had escaped from slavery or literature of the free