The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn & To Kill A Mockingbird
             Throughout the history off America, there have been moments such as Emancipation Proclamation and the Million Man March that have bound our great country together. Both of these events are historic milestones in the struggle for freedom and status for Black Americans. Two authors, Harper Lee and Mark Twain, create very similar stories in very different eras. Atticus Finch from Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a proud parent and a prominent member of Southern society; he is a legislator and a successful attorney. Atticus plays an active role in the reformation of race relations and civil rights in Alabama and he and his family come under much fire for doing so. Twain creates a boy who experiences the south thru a very unique perspective and tells about his experiences with slavery and his Negroid friend Jim. Huck is enlightened through his emotional friendship with Jim and comes to the realization that society has a very wrong stance against Blacks. Both Atticus and Huck attain the knowledge that their views are contrary to that of popular society's.
             Both Lee's Atticus and Twain's Huckleberry Finn are individuals of great courage and character. Nobody in either of their respective societies think like either of the two, naturally making outcasts. Atticus has always been a proponent for equal rights, because of his love of tolerance and understanding he is respected throughout his community of Maycomb, Alabama. His attributes help him bring an understanding between him and the conservative white population, including such men as Mr. Cunningham, and the black population such as his housemaid, Calpurnia, Reverend Sykes and Tom Robinson. Huck's views on the treatment of Blacks change throughout his story's course of events. Huck is still in a period of childhood and appropriately, thinks like one. In the begi
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