The Changing Of The America Through Literature

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were basically divided into three groups, rich white folks, poor white folks, and black slaves and plantation workers. There were no respected Negro people in any of the communities throughout the South. They were mostly slaves serving and working for the white people. Twain showed mostly the negative effects of that time period but also added in a few positive effects like having Jim freed at the end. He hoped this would show the reader that change was possible but only would work if they were willing to help make it work.
Twain wanted to teach people that the color of a person’s skin had nothing to do with how that person should be treated and looked upon in life. Even though Jim was a Negro man, didn’t mean that he was an inferior or incompetent person. Twain showed how good of a person Jim really was even though the color of his skin was darker than what people excepted. Just because he wasn’t educated like most rich white men, he was still able to show his ...

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far were people willing to go just to get a few dollars in their pocket? Twain wanted to show the hurt that greedy people caused others, and make them see what it was really doing to the world.
The Great Gatsby is very similar to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in several ways. Even though the two novels were written 74 years apart they still had to deal with many of the same situations. America had become industrialized and the people were better fed and better educated but they still hadn’t learned how to deal with the problems facing the world and didn’t know how to change them. The time is now the early 20’s and the time is now known as the Roaring 20’s or the Jazz Age. People ...

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