Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

After being kidnapped by his own father ‘Pap’ only to gain Hucks wealth, this situation kick starts Hucks hard spiral in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Being raised by a hateful ignorant racist Huckleberry Finn had no chance in living a normal loving life. Raised to hate, drink, and live in ignorance Huck's pap was a poison and Huck knew it.

"Don't you give me none o' your lip," says he. "You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You're educated, too, they say—can read and write. You think you're better'n your father, now, don't you, because he can't? I'LL take it out of you. Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut'n foolishness, hey?—who told you you could?"

His father did not want the best for him but yet the same, or for Huck to be worse off, uneducated, never sober, and as huge as a racist as himself.

As a parent Pap should want better for his own son but instead he hands out a hard lashing for Huck wanting to make something of himself.

To escape his father's clutches ,Huck put on a sham only to fake his own death and embark on an incredible adventure with his slave friend Jim.

Jim is also on the run at the time for his own freedom and the pair make quite a team throughout the novel.

The significance of the friendship budding between Huck and Jim was literally black and white.

Huckleberry is a young white boy raised to hate the opposite race by his father Pap. ‘...here was a free nigger there from Ohio—a mulatter, most as white as a white man. He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a sil...

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