In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, race and class structure themes are seen throughout the book. The characters Tom and Huck Finn develop morally through the story. In the beginning, they are mischievous boys who joke about playing tricks on a black slave. By the end of the book, they develop a bond with the black man and understand there is more to a person than the color of his skin. Even today we try to categorize people by skin color, social class, and education. We still fight prejudice in our society. During the time of the story, slavery, racism, and moral judgments were commonly accepted. The racism of the time is clearly evident with Huck Finn's friend Jim..
             Jim is the black slave of a woman named Widow Douglass, who also happens to take care of Huck along with her sister Miss Watson. In the story, Jim is a lower class individual not by choice, or through any of his actions. The main reason he would be considered a low class individual would be due to the color of his skin. Some would argue that he is not intelligent, therefore he should be in the low class category. Jim cannot help being unintelligent because he is black and there was no means of education unless you taught yourself, or if your owner desired to teach you. Huck would fall in a middle class position. The reason he is in this social class is really due to the fact that he lives with Miss Watson, and the Widow Douglass. If he did not live in that environment, where he is almost forced to act in a civilized manner, he would be in the lower class. This is shown when Huck says,
             "She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up"(11). This shows how Widow Douglass tried to make him act civilized. If it were not for Widow Douglass attempting to teach Huck manners, he would fall into the low class due to what he does in his free time. He is a smoker and steals or "bor...