This novel gives the reader an exposure to different cultures. Southern culture is a very different culture from the north, and the time when this novel was set to occur in also has a different culture than we do today. The story is set back in a time when America was just becoming something, the industrial revolution was starting and most backwoods places were yet to be influenced by industrialism. In the town of St. Petersburg they were still not yet a part of industrialization. The novel also provides people with historical insight, or apprehension of the true nature of an occurrence. In the novel The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book shows many examples of racism. Mrs. Watson still has a slave at her home that does all of her biddings, and her slave, Jim, runs away for fear of being sold (Twain 50) because slaves then were objects and not seen as people. There were laws in the South that limited African
This novel gives the reader an exposure to different cultures. Southern culture is a very different culture from the north, and the time when this novel was set to occur in also has a different culture than we do today. The story is set back in a time when America was just becoming something, the industrial revolution was starting and most backwoods places were yet to be influenced by industrialism. In the town of St. Petersburg they were still not yet a part of industrialization. The novel also provides people with historical insight, or apprehension of the true nature of an occurrence. In the novel The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book shows many examples of racism. Mrs. Watson still has a slave at her home that does all of her biddings, and her slave, Jim, runs away for fear of being sold (Twain 50) because slaves then were objects and not seen as people. There were laws in the South that limited African