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Language and Dialect in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn         Mark Twains use of language and dialect in the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn helped him to bring around the overall feel that he conveyed throughout the book, allowing him to show Huck Finns attitudes and beliefs concerning the nature of education, sla really, and family values.         When the story begins, Huck is seen as a young boy who is not very educated nor wishes to be. He does not seem to care very much for the attention that is given to him by the Widow Douglas, who had taken him in for her son, and her sister, Miss Watson. Hucks good values were not only the product of his ignorance, but there is relation seen between Hucks attitude and the attitude of his cause when Huck is confronted by him. Hucks father is gross out at the way that Huck seems to be becoming more and more civilized. He states ...they say you can read and write. You think youre b ettern your father, now, dont you, because he cant? Perhaps this description shows disgust in Huck through not following the moral values of his father, or perhaps this is just merely jealousy on his fathers part. Hucks father warns Huck more or less going to school any more, yet Huck goes anyway, showing great willpower in the character of Huck in that he was gaining an education that he never really wanted in the first place, but soon came to realize that it was something actually useful, and in the fact that he was disobeying his fathers orders.         Hucks feelings about slavery are shown when he helps Jim, Miss Watsons slave, to escape. Hucks constant statement that Jim talks like he is white inside shows that Huck was unique amongst the society in which he lived in the fact that he saw beneath the color of a psyches skin and saw the person that was truly there. Jim seems to be the only person that Huck can trust other than Tom Saywer, Hucks best friend. Huck Finn felt that slavery was a cruel injustice because he had gotten to know Jim and lay out out that there was more to him than just being a slave. Huck had found that Jim was a human being just like himself.