The Prominent Theme Of Huck Finn

There are many themes in this story but the prominent themes or most well known themes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are racism and slavery. When this book was written the south was still suffering with racism and slavery. In this book you can really see how Huck has to deal with the racism.  When Huck says, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes"(88) it represents how this is still during the time of racism and Miss Watson, a white lady,
has no problem having a slave and Huck's mind is telling him that he should feel the same way. He is telling himself that he should be like Miss Watson and everyone else and not care about their slaves and be racist. The prominent themes are racism and slavery because Twain purposely wrote this book to take place when slavery was still around to show how people have evolved from being racist to not being as racist. You can see Huck slowly becoming an antiracist when he helps jim run away, and the fact that Jim is a friend to him.

Jim is sold to some of Tom Sawyer's relatives, and Tom and Huck decide to rescue Jim from slavery. This shows how Huck genuinely want to help him. Throughout the whole book you see what Huck's conscience is telling him to do and you see what hisheart is telling him to do. He struggles with fighting slavery and racism with Jim throughout the entire novel, and the entire novel deals with racism and slavery and the novel takes place during the time period where racism and slavery were a big deal, thus making the prominent themes of this novel racism and slavery.