... robbers and call it..." wasone of the things Huck said (Twain 9). When Twain was four yearsold, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on thewest bank of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River and thetowns along it were used as the setting in The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. "We judged ... more would fetchus to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comesin^^ (Twain 106). Huck and Jim were trying to reach a town namedCairo. It was located in a free state, Ohio. Cairo was just oneof the many towns Twain referred to in this novel. Twain evenused familia...

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... ironic because the townspeople complained about the separation of the enslaved family, but they did not mind that the family was being sold. The incident gives the feeling that the town would not have complained if the family had been sold intact, "ethically." Mark Twain introduces this episode to mock the ignorant and illogical attitudes of Southerners in his era. The ... Wilks is an example of a perceptive verbal irony. The conversation reaches its climax when Joanna asks Huck, "How are servants treated in England? Do they treat "em better "n we treat our niggers?" (173). Huck, who is...

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