Huck Finn Country Life In The 1830's And 1840

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In Huckleberry Finn, country life in the 1830’s and 1840’s there were prominent features of the people and towns that Mark Twain describes. The people of the town were very proper, everybody helps everyone, and they always knew of events that happened or are happening within the town. If something in the town seems odd or out of place, everybody will know about within a day or so. The town’s were remote and there were some plantations that slaves worked at. The people who resided in certain towns were very observant of everything that was going on within the town. When Huck decided to escape from his father, he set sail to Jackson Island to hide where nobody would find him. On Jackson Island he met a runaway slave named Jim who would become

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