In Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain develops the plot into Huck and Jim’s adventures along the Mississippi River. The two main characters, Huck and Jim, both run from social injustice and both are distrustful of the civilization around them. Huck is considered an uneducated uncivilized boy, constantly under pressure to conform to the humanized surroundings of society. Jim, a slave, is not even considered as a real person, but …showed first 75 words of 1425 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1425 total…another, even to the extent of going to hell. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows how two complete opposites can come together for a common goal. Huck and Jim symbolize all that is good in a growing friendship and trust between two people. Mark Twain, obviously thought that the racial hatred and discrimination that was going on during his lifetime was wrong and he expressed this through his writing in a subtle but honest way.