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When the pair returns to land, Huck forces Jim to remain back at the boat because it would be taboo for them to be seen together as equals. The juxtaposition of Huck and Jim’s relationship on land and water shows that society is to blame for prejudice and inequality...
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The juxtaposition of Huck and Jim’s relationship on land and water shows that society is to blame for prejudice and inequality. Rationally the river is the place where Huck has his epiphany that slavery is wrong. Huck says, “I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it...
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