Huckleberry Finn Figurative Language Essay

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain is a book written in 1885 during the time of slavery. Twain wrote this book to not only explain to the audience, but also to expose society’s hypocrisy and ignorant views of slavery in a comedic form and also by using figurative language to the audience to show the purpose of the story. Twain decided to right this novel before the abolition of slavery because he wanted to show the audience that slavery was way deeper and bigger than what many people thought. In this story he uses different dialects to distinguish the differences between Huck and Jim. This show that in those times white were more educated, while slaves really didn’t do anything, but work. Also twain uses lots of details in describing how times were during the early stages of slavery to show part of the theme of the story. The setting of this novel serves a big purpose to the theme. The reason why is because in the south slavery was very huge. It was one of the biggest pieces to the Southern economy. Without slaves the south would’ve collapsed. That’s why in the story if the slaves ran away the south will act very quickly to catch them because without the slaves back in those times, it would’ve never even been a south. Also the setting is really what draws the attention of the …show more content…
During the time of slavery, whites look at African-Americans as an inferior. That means that whites thought they were better than slaves, so they looked down on them. However, twain wanted to show the audience in a comic way that everyone is equal and we shouldn’t look down on each other just because the color of our skin is different. This is a major part of the theme because it sums up most of what the book means as a