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The event in the book which i choose to do is when Huck's father, who is not in a sober state of mind at the time, rants about how he doesn't believe an African American should have the right to vote. This African American gentlemen that he is referring to is half white also. Huck's father did not want this man to vote, he wanted him to be sold at an auction. Because the man was gonna vote, Huck's pap, said he wasn't gonna vote anymore, even though he probably never planned on voting in the first place. He began to criticize the government, sarcastically saying "Oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful."

Analysis: Many whites in the South, and a few in the North, thought that they were better than blacks, and that blacks shouldn't have the right to vote. Many slaves at the time were sold at auctions, to rich plantation owners, and Huck's father, even though the gentlemen was half white and half black thought the black man should be sold. In the south malato's, half white and half black people we're normally sold at birth, due to the mental agony it caused the wife of the plantation owner. Before the Civil War the south was preparing to split away from the Union, and everything the government did, that the Southerners didn't like, the people of the south criticized and made it another justification for them to break away.