The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain is a novel about a young boy and his river endeavors along with a fellow escaped slave. A common theme in this book is dehumanization and racism. These two themes go hand in hand. Mark Twain specifically places this story in around the years 1835 through 1845. This was centralized around the lifestyle of people and their thoughts toward slaves in the Civil War. Along Huck and Jim’s travels, they run into a woman and man named, Mr. and Mrs. Loftus who want Jim for a reward. While Mrs. Loftus is talking to Huck under a disguise, she says “The nigger run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. So there’s a reward out for him- three hundred dollars.” (69). Mrs. Loftus really wants to find
