ed, murder, trickery, hypocrisy, racism, and a general lack of morality, all the ingredients of society. All through the adventure you have Huck Finn and Jim trying to find the one thing they can only find on the river, freedom, but a person can only stay on the river for so long, and so you have to go on land to face the injustices of society.As you can see, Mark Twain has managed to weave his either beliefs of society or society's beliefs in his era into these two novels. He identifies and depicts the problems with society and the individuals that either create or were created by the wrongfulness of their times.Puddin'head Wilson, on the other hand, emphasizes more on issues involving the slave family, and the slave community as a whole.Jim, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Driscoll from Pudd'nhead Wilson are both colored characters who face completely different experiences and have distinct perspectives on slavery. Despite being black by birth, Tom Driscoll embodies the qualities of a typical white southern manTom Driscoll's mother, a black mistress named Roxana, decides to exchange him by her master's son in order to protect her "nigger" son from being sold down the river. Roxy had a very fair complexion, but "the one-sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro." Tom's father was a prosperous man named Percy Northumberland, the brother of Judge York Driscoll who was the chief citizen of Dawson's Landing. As both stories develop its actions, themes, and individual characters, an attentive reader shall readily perceive that one novel complements the other one. Through the actions of Jim, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gives its readers a better understanding of the personal trauma of a slave, while Pudd'nhead Wilson elucidates the reasons for this trauma.In Pudd'nhead Wilson slavery and society are portrayed as being the key elements behind the destruction of an individual's self...
