Theme: the theme of slavery in the novels of m. Twain contents

2.3.4. Widow Douglass and Miss Watson
They are two wealthy sisters who live in a large house in St Petersburg and who adopt Huck in an attempt to civilize him. The Widow Douglass is a nice religious lady who takes Huck under her wing. Miss Watson is very severe and the most prominent representative of the hypocritical religious and social values Twain criticizes in the novel because she does not care about her black slave Jim and his separation from his family; “whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would send him south” (Twain 79). When Huck acts in an inappropriate manner he fears disappointing the Widow Douglass more than Miss Watson because she is gentler in her beliefs and more patient with him. However, Miss Watson has freed Jim in her testament so that no one will own him after her death but during her lifetime, he must remain her slave.
2.3.5. Pap
Huck‟s father and the town drunken, Pap looks bad and terrible when he appears at the beginning of the novel with disgusting ghostly white skin and torn clothes. The illiterate Pap dislikes of Huck‟s education and beats him “he used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me” (Twain 12). Pap represents in the novel the failure of family structure and the degradation of white society because he is not searching for his son but when he knows that Huck owns enough money he locks him in the woods. Pap can also be seen as racist in the novel as he shows his racist attitude toward the rich “mulatter” when he blames the government for giving him the right to vote even though he is professor and can speak many languages and is more educated than Pap. He is not seen as a man or a member of the society. Due to Pap‟s racist attitude he underestimate this man “They said he could vote when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was „lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn‟t too drunk to get there” (Twain 29). In this case Twain is trying to shed light on the way white people always see blacks as inferior no matter about their social status and how much intelligence they had.