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Twain uses discrimination as a social factor in this story and it comes from personal account. He shows this hatred has formed the society and the lives of people within it. The bigotry of the 1850s not only shaped the time period, it was the time period. Slavery was the most controversial aspect of this time and it affected everyone. People living in this era were constantly faced with the arduous task of, is slavery right or wrong?

I have chosen an instince in the story that conveys the truth about honest old Huck. One being that Huck is naive and is under the influence of what is believed as common practice for the time period. This goes for most of the more neutral partakers in discrimination, in that if one is sheltered and taught to think a certain way, to see around this is a very daunting and unrealistic task. This is no reason to dislike them or treat them with contempt but more of an awakening to the reality that even Huckleberry is clouded by the ugly storm of racism.

Pap criticizes the American government by exploding on the black man who could vote, this is Mark Twain's way of showing how free white men were still feeling the effects of racism. Pap is an incredibly uncapable parent who speaks about how he wishes his son to give up school in order to follow behind in his fathers footsteps. Pap is enraged when he is made aware of a black man that has a higher social status than he which alludes to segregational issues in the south. The social system in the south is split up between the wealthy plantation owner's, farmers, and poor whites. The black people are presumed to be slaves from birth, so says god. In society, the rich plantation owners were usually the only people who paid for their children's education and this is why poor Pap is jealous towards the "learned" black man and Huck with his education. Huck is plaigued by his fathers views and even through all of it he can still find goodness in black people.

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