The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn wrote to protest the evil and hypocritical practices that comprised of the 19th-century society. The story follows the life of Huck, who is first presented in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, as he comes to see the evils of the society he is living in. Most of the people in Huck’s life live within the views and morals set by the community which are perceived as the best for everyone. Huck’s role in the narrative is to show the hypocrisy of some people in the community and how their actions lead cause harm to other people.
One classic example how good intentions only serve against Huck is when his father, Pap, returns and demands to Huck’s money. Judge Thatcher together with the Widow to get legal custody of Huck, but another judge with the good intentions and believes in the right of a father to his son and grants Pap custody. Additionally, the judge invites Pap to his home and tries to have him reformed. However, this backfires, and Pap goes back to his old drinking and abusive self and later torments Huck by kidnapping him and locking him up.
Silas and Sally Phelps, Tom’s aunt and uncle, are regarded as right people in the community. By the laws of the time when a slave runs away, they were to be brought back to their owners and the Phelps family tries to do so as they see it as the right course of action (Spencer 129).

In doing so, they cause Jim and Huck a lot of pain trying to escape their premises, yet Jim is a free slave.
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Spencer, Andrew. “A Fiction of Law and Custom”: Mark Twain’s Interrogation of White Privilege in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The Mark Twain Annual 15.1 (2017): 126-144.