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Huckleberry Finn Movie Vs Book

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an interesting tale of how people acted in the time period this book was released. The book was in fact released only about 20 years after the American Civil War had ended. Along with this, Slavery in the United States had only just been abolished 20 years before. While the book is a story about Huckleberry Finn and his “adventures”, I think the book’s intention was to show the status of racism from the people of the time. This is something the book does very well. The book also successfully adapts the character’s dialect into the writing, which helps to indentify the reader with the character’s intellect, education, and intention. Many people fail to see the real meaning and intention of the book behind

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