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You Don’t Know Me” In Chapter 1 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck spoke for Mark Twain when he made the statement, “You don’t know about me...but that ain’t no matter.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was not a sequel to his other adventure stories but a literary statement questioning how civilized our American society really was. Twain was not a racist but a realist. The perception of racism in the …showed first 75 words of 866 total…

…showed last 75 words of 866 total…his point or would turn him off like Huck and Tom’s friends did when Tom Sawyer outlined the rules he found in adventure books. Instead, Twain hoped his reader would view the world through Huck’s eyes to realize if they were open and honest they too would be able to do what was right. Then they could develop a deeper understanding or sympathy for other human beings and be able to recognize racism.