How Has Huck Finn Changed American Society

Throughout time, some things have drastically changed for the better, things have stayed the same or things have gotten worse. But that is a matter of opinion. What is your opinion on these things? Do you think things have gotten better, stayed the same or gotten worse? Mark Twain wrote a book called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and it showed how society was back then and the struggles people went through. American society has changed since 1840 and as time passed our society has gotten way worse by the acts of violence, laws and justice and scams. The way society has changed for the worse is by the acts of violence and how the affect is. In book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn there is a lot of violence going on an example is “‘ Yes, sir! I know you do know because you done did it yourself!’ ‘Take y’r hands off! Leggo my throat! I take it all back!’” (Twain 165). This shows that since the Duke did not get the answer he wanted, he then strangled the King to get it out of him. This also showed how the two of them did not trust each other at all when it comes to money. Now to compare that to what is happening in our society. “Chicago saw a 16% drop in murders from 2016 the deadliest year in nearly two decades, with the city recording 771 murders to 2017, when there were 650 murders” (CNN). You can
In the book laws and justice there is pretty crazy an example which is “The king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers” (Twain 183). This happened because they were finally caught for all the scams and lives they have ruined. Now let’s make a little comparison to our society. “A man is facing murder charges after police say the person he shot died of his injuries in the hospital one day after the shooting” (WTOL). Between the 1840s to now these types of actions have gotten way worse. It just proves to show how our society has not gotten