1. Huck Finn as a criticism and a protest of the South
... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a criticism and a protest against Southern society of the 19th century. Throughout the novel Twain recognizes the cowardice, hypocrisy, and stupidity of the South during the period leading up to the Civil War. As Huck and Jim float down the river in their journey for freedom, each of their adventures shows us a little more about how Mark Twain felt about the South, and it's views on ... person as worthless, and the African Americans were not actually people at all. Here again we find Twain speaking out against the South. The literary critic Veit Kuhne...
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