Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a criticism and a protest against Southern society of the 19th century. ... Huckleberry explains that the reason he is late, is because his ferry had blown a cylinder head. ... Today, when we read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we tend to cringe at the very use of "the n word," as it is uses frequently in the book, much different than the people of the South during the 19th century, who's daily vocabulary contained the word nigger, using it to describe a black [sub]person. ... The most powerful and blatant attack against the S...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate