Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a criticism and a protest against Southern society of the 19th century. Throughout the novel Twain recognizes the cowardice, hypocrisy, and stupidity of the South during the period leading up to the Civil War. As Huck and Jim float down the ri...
Dee makes herself an outsider, in many respects the same as the white people she despises, and she would never be able to see the quilts for what they are until she can finally obtain her freedom without rejecting her African American roots and Walker does not provide much encouragement for that ever happening. ...