Throughout Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, the word ignorant, is a recurring theme of a person who is unaware or unknowing of various concepts of life, and because of this is seen at as inferior to others. A scene that gives an example of this is on page sixty-eight when Huck tries to explain the concept of different languages to Jim. After repeated attempts at getting him to understand, Huck eventually gives up, saying, "I see it warn't no use wasting words-you can't learn a nigger to argue. So I quit." Huck no longer sees Jim as a companion, but as a slave, who is ignorant about the ways of the world, and therefore inferior to him. Later in the story, when Tom Sawyer reenters, Huck finds himself being called ignorant and being seen as inferior. On page two hundred and two, when Huck tries to give Tom some ideas of how they could go about their plan, Tom calls him ignorant, and proceeds to ridicule him. Throughout the last chapters of this story, Huck is made to feel i!
             gnorant many times. "It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck. (205)" Both Jim and Huck are called ignorant and treated as inferior to others throughout this story. The theme presented is that are they are an "uneducated" type of ignorant, not simply "stupid." Their ways of dealing with the world and situations that they are presented with are different and many times seen as ignorant.
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