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Why read [|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] by [|Mark Twain]? The novel, written in 1885, sucessfully criticizes many incidents and occurances through satire. The use of satire reflects upon a changing American society in the post Civil War era. One thing that was obviously changing at the time was the race relationship between African Americans and whites in America. In the South, white slave owners were furious when their slaves were set free after the Emancipation Proclamation was set into effect in 1863. On the other hand African Americans began to feel a sense of accomplishment after almost all plantations in the South had been burned or destroyed by the war. Mark Twain satirizes this relationship when Huck ponders turning in Jim, but decides not to because that would classify him as an abolitionist and he didn't want that.

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