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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (view source)
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, 16:29, June 10, 2010a story about the friendship between two outcasts
In ''Huck Finn,'' Twain:
In ''Huck Finn,'' Twain:
* ... progressed from calling slavery an abomination to actually showing through the friendship between Huck and Jim that the reason slavery was wrong was that slaves were real human beings who felt everything that whites did. Even though the message was veiled, the length, depth and reach of the work gives it major status as social criticism, and qualifies it as the peak of Twain’s confrontational stance against slavery.<ref name=thesis />
* ... progressed from calling slavery an abomination to actually showing through the friendship between Huck and Jim that the reason slavery was wrong was that slaves were real human beings who felt everything that whites did. Even though the message was veiled, the length, depth and reach of the work gives it major status as social criticism, and qualifies it as the peak of Twain’s confrontational stance against slavery.<ref name=thesis />
==Plot==
''Huckleberry Finn'' is a story about the friendship between two outcasts, one a 13-year-old streetwise (white) [[urchin]], the other a mature (black) [[runaway slave]]. While Jim is running away from the prospect of losing his cushy house-servant position for the drudgery of a deep south plantation, Huck is also running away from a slavelike existence as prisoner of his own drunken father. Both are relieved upon their meeting on Jackson Island, with Jim just as happy to find that Huck is not a ghost as Huck is to find that Jim is not someone who will return him to Pap.
==Notes==
==Notes==