The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is one of the most read novels in American literature. The book was written in the late 1860s, when the Civil War ended. It was a tumultuous time for America. The segregation law was passed and racism was at its highest. Mark Twain wrote the novel primarily to take “a twelve-year-old boy and accompany him throughout his life (in the first person)”. (ClifNotes, 10) But slowly the enthusiasm for the escape of the slaves begins to fade in Mark Twain, so he stops writing the book. But later he took up the pen to write about a white boy, named Huck Finn, introduced to the world of readers with the phrase: "You won't know me without reading a book called The Adventures of Tom." Sawyer, but it doesn't matter." (Twain, 1) Then the epic novel continues as Huck joins Tom Sawyer's supposed band of thieves and pirates. But the story changes when his father Pap Finn arrives in town. Pap, violent and drunk, he threatens Huck to leave school but Huck goes to school only to make him angry and kidnaps Huck in a small river in Mississippi, he longs for freedom from his father. He then fakes his own murder and escaped to James Island. There he finds Mrs. Watson's slave, Jim, who was hiding out of fear that if anyone found him they would sell him at the slave market. But they soon find that people are coming for Jim on James Island. Jim makes a plan to escape to the Free State, a thought that troubles Huck's conscience. Even as Huck breaks the rules, Huck struggles with Jim's concept of slavery and freedom the duke and the king. The duke and king join together on their journey but ultimately betray t...... middle of paper ......berry Finn, Copywriter 20003. Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein, published 1953.WebPages1. http://www.enotes.com/twentieth-century-criticism/adventures-huckleberry-finn-mark-twain2. Jo Walton, http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=341153. Mark L. Olson, http://www.nesfu.org/reviews/olson/StarmanJones.html4. Pearl James, http://www.answers.com/topic/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-novel-65. Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_JonesNewspapers and magazines on the Internet1. Boston Daily Advertiser, March 12, 1885, p. 2, http://etext.virginia.edu/twain/bosdail3.html2. The Argonaut (of San Francisco), March 14, 1885, vol. XVI, n. 11, page. 10, http://etext.virginia.edu/twain/argonaut.html3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May 1885, pp. 171-2, by TS Perry, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/twain/perry.html