o the people of his time it would seem that he is just an ungrateful, uncivilised and wicked boy who doesn't deserve all of the kind help that is offered to him from the widow Douglas. Twain purposely deceives the reader into thinking to evoke a greater sympathy for Huck further on in the novel, when it is clear that his way of living in the wild is not so uncivilised. This is again backed up by the fact that throughout the novel we see Huck doing good things, such as helping Jim (a black African slave) to escape and be free, may help to change the readers opinions.
             In this time Jim would have also been seen as a wild person. Most of the slaves at the time were treated very badly. Like the character Jim most of the slaves were taken away from their families and made to live a life of misery being worked really hard and treated really badly. Twain uses Jim within the novel to turn societies view of civilised and wild people on its head and introduce racial equality. The language that Twain uses towards the slaves (such as nigger etc), is very shocking to read and at times I found it uncomfortable. This however seems to be a accurate parody to how the people at the time would regard the slaves. Twain is also very clever in the way that he als
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