Twain portrays Huck as an average boy of his time, mischievous, adventurous and funny. ... Watson's run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the sub ordinance that blacks were placed in America, because blacks were not allowed to be in the house, because they were uneducated, and had to be working in the fields. ... This shows the reader that blacks are so low, that the white people place prices on the blacks. ... All three novels are requirement in English III. ...

• Word Count: 1717
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The novel was beginning to be viewed from a different perspective. ... Jim's superstitions and his subservient role in many parts of the novel strengthen their belief that the book should be banned for what is now believed to be blatantly racial content. ... The narrator is a thirteen year old boy. ... In a society where whites still believed that they were superior to blacks, Huck's speech was seen to be offensive. ... Twain writes of a beautiful relationship that occurred between a white boy and a black escaped slave. ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this novel, he played two tricks on Jim, enough to never make him do such a thing again. ... Jim was hurt by Huck and calls him trash, the exact turning point of Huck's morality; he even had the decency to apologize, showing acceptance to a black man. ... Is your man white or black?" ... "Keep away, boy "keep to looard. ... By the middle of the novel, anyone could believe that Huck Finn learned a great lesson of equality and made a complete 360 in becoming a new person. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School