Essay on Twain's comment on society in "Huckleberry Finn", by Mark Twain

Throughout the novel Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the author points out the injustices and hypocrisy of society and mirrors his views on society with those of Huck. As the reader follows Huck, a young southern boy making an escape from his abusive drunkard of a father, alongside Jim, a runaway slave, he/she views Huck's moral development as he transcends common public opinion of African Americans at the time, part of Twain's comment on …

…display his feelings toward these injustices. Often Twain's feelings would show themselves in the actions of his characters, and the end of this novel was a fine example of this. As everything in the novel is wrapped up, Huck states that he is going out west because if he stays there Aunt Sally will try to "sivilize" him and Huck finishes out the novel by saying "and I can't stand it. I been there before."