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“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn� is an astucious and vibrant American novel that cleverly uses humor to scathe a society that among other things, viewed one race of people as inferior to another. Through this veil of satire and conscious condemnation author Mark Twain(Samuel Clemens) establishes the most noble, courageous, moral and intelligent character in the book, In the form of Jim, the runaway slave. The story is littered with plenty of other characters that embody several of these characteristics but none do it so thoroughly, daringly and to the full extent of their respective definitions as Jim does. To understand why this is so and why Twain chose to make Jim the character he is, one needs to understand the text of the novel and Twain himself to grasp the reasoning for penning this character the way he did.
Mark Twain came into the world with Halley’s comet in 1835 and left the world with it in 1910. In between those years he became a foremost figure in American......

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