There has never been a time in which individuals did not feel oppressed by society in one way or another. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set by Mark Twain in the pre-civil war era, when both racism and slavery were at a highpoint. In the novel, the main character, Huck, is faced with having to "decide, forever, betwixt two things,"(192), things which are highly controversial at that point in time. Because of the controversial matter of his decision, Huck has a hard time deciding what to do and he is torn between what he thinks is right and what he is told is right. Through Huck's strugg...

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