Smiley missed the point of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and reduced the book to a fraction of its ideas. He sees the book as a failed social commentary on racism and allows the reader to avoid responsibility. A short-sighted sentiment on Mrs. Smiley's part, but Mark Twain has a light directed elsewhere. It illuminates the territory of social improvements by irritating the reader to see it from different points of view. Huckleberry Finn deals with the issue of racism. Racism, however, is just a plague on society. The book suggests social change in whatever form it may take (and it takes a lot of it). Racism is just one readily available example that people were already taking note of, easy pickings for Mr. Twain. An example of social change that Huck overcomes by leaps and bounds. In today's society, befriending Jim would seem ordinary and insignificant, but for Huck, he had already come to the conclusion of eternal damnation for his actions. The idea of ​​making friends with a “nigger” was completely foreign and cutting edge. It was shocking, it wasn't him...