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In the book Huckleberry Fin, Mark Twain, tries to show the intolerance and injustice of the society of the South in the times of civil war through the eyes of a child. Among with other stereotypical southern behaviors, Huck is intolerant towards slaves. He sees black people as property belonging to the person who buys him or her without any feelings characteristic to humans. He constantly uses the term “nigger”, and enjoys a laugh at a slave’s expense. Huck spends most of his adventures down the rivers with a runaway salve Jim. Huck new Jim since he was a child in his old town. In fact, Huckleberry and his best friend Tom, play a rather crude joke on Jim. They tie Jim to a tree while he is sleeping, and allow him to believe that it was all witches. When Huck pretends to be dead to get away from his father, he encounters Jim, who has also renounced his master, at an abandoned island. Despit