In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain depicts an antebellum South where the novel’s protagonist, Huck Finn, travels from his humble origins of a poverty-filled life in Missouri with his …show more content…
Although Twain demonstrates that racism was rampant in the 1800s and African Americans, even freedmen, were subject to ridicule and scorn by their white contemporaries. Twain’s novel adds an immense depth to the field of American literature as it follows its protagonist through a story which reveals the ugly, racist truth about society and the values which are passed down from generation to generation. However, the novel instills hope by revealing that anyone, whether born slave or free, has the capability of looking beyond societal labels and seeing other people as who they truly are, as human