Huckleberry Finn Contradictions

Mark Twain’s extensive of the n-word throughout the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” has been long debated about. Twain’s conscious use of the word n*gger reflects both his and Huck’s indifference to what they’re society believes about black people. Moreover, the word is used to criticize the contradictions and irony among the southern white society pre-civil war. Through Twain’s use of the n-word in “Huck Finn”, he is able to humanize black people. Twain gives human emotions to Jim in the novel when discussing his story and his struggle in regaining his family, changing him from being seen as a measly slave, to an actual human. Twain also uses the n-word to show the contradictions within Huck’s society. Huck demeans the duke and