Essay PaperThe book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, there are different themes that Mark Twain tries to bring out and which one can find when one goes through carefully light-hearted and youthful adventure story. Although the novel was written several years after slavery was outlawed in America, the book is set several decades earlier, at a time when slavery and racism were still a troubling reality. When looking at the book from a different perspective, the writer is simply trying to give an overview of the conditions of racism and slavery during this time period. When the Civil War ended, it was hoped that racism would not be as tense as during the war. However, in the novel, Twain still paints the picture of simple hope, as black people still had it because of the difference in the color of their skin. Slavery could have easily been ended, but when whites living in the South decided to enact laws using the excuse of their safety against the newly free black slaves, blacks viewed this as immoral and discriminatory and even chose to take action. accordingly. Even though the novel takes place at a time when slavery had already been abolished, black people living in the southern part of the state do not have an easy life being black and Twain takes his novel back a few decades. to give readers a clear and honest picture. about the nature of racism and slavery at the time. The book is set in the late 19th century in a rural part of the state along the Mississippi River, where the main dominants in society are white people who look down on African-American life. in the region and treat them with great cruelty and discrimination. The main character of the story is Jim Crow. Twain uses a depiction in the middle of the paper that African Americans are forced to live with simply because they are black. chapter 6, when Pap is talking to a free black man, when he finds out that black men are free to vote in this state, he states: "but when they told me there was a state in this country where they would let this nigger vote, I withdrew. I said I would never vote again” (Twain, 78). This statement is rather irrational considering that in reality, one would not vote simply because black men are free to vote in the state. Mark Twain does a remarkable job of bringing out the differences in life and the difficult times that black people had to endure during the 19th century without ever being treated as equals to white people. Additionally, the writer does a great job of making people aware. that racism does not only affect the oppressed, but also the oppressors.