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I feel that Huckleberry Finn is a valuable commentary on the habits of humanity during that era. Mark Twain set a high standard for future writers to follow, and at the same time made repeated condescending remarks about the way people, specif ....

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... where there is no thought or reason. This fact is pointed out when Huck asks what started the feud, and nobody can tell him because they don't know, yet they continue to kill each other. The point which Twain drives toward in this point of the book is that people are basically sheep, a point reiterated later when a large group of people goes to lynch a man, and end up leaving quietly without doing anything. This summarizes the basic view Mark Twain held of the average southern person. Mark Twain demonstrated the way a child might think when Tom Sawyer started a band of outlaws in which everyone had to sign an oath in blood i ...