Text EssayThe book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there are several themes that Mark Twain tries to bring out that can be found when you acutely traverse the lighthearted and story of youthful adventures. Although the novel was written several years after slavery had already been outlawed in America, the book is set several decades earlier, when slavery and racism were still a concern. When you see the book from a different perspective, the writer is simply trying to give a picture of the conditions of racism and slavery during that time. At the end of the Civil War it was hoped that racism would not be as pronounced as during the war. However, in the novel Twain still describes the image of only hope, evil that blacks still had due to the difference in their skin color. Slavery could have easily been eliminated, but when whites living in the South decide to enact laws that use the excuse of their safety against the newly free black slaves, blacks consider it immoral and discriminatory and even choose to act upon it. Although the time setting of the novel was when slavery had already been abolished, blacks living in the south of the state do not have an easy time being black and Twain sets his novel a few decades back to give readers a clear and honest picture . of the nature of racism and slavery at the time. The book is set in the late 19th century in a rural area of ​​the state along the Mississippi River, where the main dominants in society are whites who look down on African-American life. in the area and treat them with a lot of cruelty and discrimination. The main character of the story is Jim Crow, Twain uses a representation...... middle of paper......elty that African Americans are forced to live with simply because they are black. chapter 6 when Pap talks to a free black man, when he finds out that black men are free to vote in the state, he states, "but when they told me there was a state in this country where they would let that nigger vote , I pulled out and said I will never vote again” (Twain, 78). The statement is rather irrational considering that one would not actually vote for the simple fact that black men are free to vote in the Mark Twain state does a great job of bringing out the differences in the lives and difficult times that blacks had to endure during the 19th century, without ever being treated as equals to whites. Furthermore, the writer does a great job of making people understand that the Racism not only affects the oppressed, but also the oppressors.