It was a scorching hot summer day, a perfect day to sit under a tree and relax. For one slave this did not matter he would still have to go out in the field and work all day, from sunrise to sunset. In the eyes of society he was just valuable property. His owner took better care of him than his animal. This was how society treated African Americans for many years. In the novel Huckleberry Finn by, Mark Twain, Jim is an escaped slave who is treated just as bad. This controversial novel focuses on the immorality of slavery and race hatred.
             In the novel, Jim runs away from his slave owner, Miss Watson. By doing a thing like that Jim could have been killed or beat. The people of Jim's society would not have even listened to him or even considered his reason. "Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus-dat's Miss Watson- she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she alwuz said she wouln' sell me down to Orleans. ... but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me". Pg.50 Twain wanted to show, through Jim, just how cruel people were and how those feelings were condoned by society. White people also found ways to blame the black people for everything that went wrong.
             When Huck cleverly fakes his death and escapes to Jacksons Island the people back in town thought Jim had something to do with it. If there were any way to blame a black man for a crime, the people would do it. "'Some think old Finn done it himself... But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway nigger named Jim.'" (83). The racist people thought that no white man was capable of doing such an act; in their view it had to be someone with dark skin. Throughout the novel the reader sees how the racist people were hypocrites.
             Although Huck and Jim live a relatively peaceful life on the raft, they are ultimately unable to escape the evils and hypocrisies of the outside world. The most notable representat...