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Throughout Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he uses his young character to bring light to the injustices of society. Along his adventure, Huck meets different characters, each representing what Twain sees as a fault of society At the beginning of his adventure Huck finds Jim on Jackson’s Island. Twain uses Jim to symbolize the injustice of slavery. During the 1840’s, the southern society saw slaves as property, not as people. Because they were â€Å"not human†, the selling of the inferior beings was justified. Since Huck grew up in this setting, he at first believed slaves were not human. After travelling with Jim Huck began to realize that the being he at one point saw only as a slave was a human being with human feelings. Huck saw Jim’s humanity in the way he reacted to his trick, to the way he cried about his daughter, and even in the way he treated him. By the end of the book, Huck realizes that despite what society may think of him, and despite what even God may think of him, he had to follow his heart and act upon what he felt was right. Later in his adventure...