In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain relates the story of a young Southern boy's adventures and his discoveries of how society works. The reader watches Huck and his companion, a runaway slave named Jim, go through great lengths in order to free Jim and rescue Huck from his father Pap. From face to face encounters with snakes, to how Huck dressed up as a girl and eventually was seen through, this novel …showed first 75 words of 543 total…

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