Submissiveness and Slavery In “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Mark Twain argues the force behind slavery is submissiveness by Huck always yielding to adults, Huck being a pacifist by not wanting to cause trouble, Jim’s obedience to the white man, and Jim’s view on his ascribed status in society. Twain uses these four ideas to portray his view on slavery shortly after the civil war. Huck lets adults walk all over him particularly …showed first 75 words of 704 total…

…showed last 75 words of 704 total…in himself, but he does not realize it. Jim in his own respects may not be educated, but this does not mean he is dumb. Huck just does not want to tell Jim because he thinks that he is not smart enough to understand and this is reflected in how he was brought up by his father to believe what society says about black people being the lesser of the white man of that time.