... cruelty, and the passage of laws (i.e. Plessy v. Ferguson) that codified discrimination. In the private arena this meant wholesale intimidation, beatings, and lynching of black Americans, who didn't "give up the road."" Like so Many of Twain's protagonists, both black and white, including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jim, Pap, The Boss, Pudd'nhead, Tom Driscoll, Chambers and Roxy, Sam Clemens was infected with a form of ... to operate within a web of lies that enables the civilization to limp along without complete anarchy. It seems that the only way to present honesty is through the use of s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate