An analysis of the ending of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn by Hasan Memon
             "I never let my schooling interfere with my education..."
             Mark Twain wrote the last few chapters in order to show that non-abolishing of slavery was just a horrific of a crime against humanity as owning a slave. Mark Twain believed that men should stand up and speak against the institution of slavery and if man failed many lives would be doomed, therefore prolonging the horrific cycle of oppression. This opinion is clearly expressed in the last few chapters of Huckleberry Finn through the interaction of Huck, Tom and Jim. Mark Twain was quoted as having had said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear" in Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar.
             As Huck and Jim journeyed down the river they developed a bond. There were multiple obstacles and tests through which Jim gained Huck's trust, strengthening their bond. This book was heretical because it was one of the first, if not the first to declare a "nigger" human. Jim was transformed in Huck's perspective as an actual, feeling, thinking human being.
             ||||Put quote in when Huck had to humble himself||||
             The evidence of this is shown when Huck is forced to "humble" himself to Jim.
             To humble oneself to a "nigger" was abnormal because the beliefs of the society of the time. The "niggers" ranking in society was shown in the introduction of chapter thirty-two. When Huck entered Mrs. Phelps house, she asked him why he was so late. Huck, in response, told her that a cylinder head exploded. She responded "Good Gracious! Anybody hurt?" Huck, in disguise as a archetypical person of society, tells her "No'm Killed a nigger." This conversation seems very harmless and trivial but upon closer examination, the value of a "nigger" in society can be deduced. Huck tacked on a comment...