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From humankind’s emergence into modern times, people have been resistant to change of any kind. Once a group of people incorporate an idea into their society, it becomes ingrained in every heart, mind, and soul. Those individuals who question what society has ....

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.... community. Even the widow who rescued him from his father owns slaves. Huck shows his own belief in the practice of slavery when he discovers that Jim has run away. He has promised not to tell but worries that people will “call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum....” (43). During the course of their journey, the line that Huck envisions between himself and Jim becomes increasingly fainter. Society and its mores seem extremely distant and remote from the simple yet ideal life Jim and Huck lead on their raft. Just as slavery was an almost universally recognized practice in Huckleberry Finn’s world, the supposed infer ....