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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain portraying the adventurous life of a young boy, Huckleberry Finn. Beyond the audacious plot, within Huck's spirit he struggles with the concepts of right and wrong. Huck is torn with the ethical issue of helping a runaway slave although he believes it's the immoral thing to do. This moral conflict regarding the equality of human beings is slowing resolved during the duration of the novel.
"He had an uncommon level head for a nigger," quoted by Huck during the beginning of the novel. This demonstrates Huck's belief that African Americans are naturally unequal to white people. He apparently believes whites aren't only superior socially, but also intellectually. The origin of these assumptions can simply be traced back to civilization of the 1840's. He was raised in a time and society where black inferiority was the only thing people knew. No one had ever told Huck any differently; thus the concept of whites......

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