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

2.3.7. The Grangerfords
A family that takes Huck in after a steam boat hits his raft on the river. This family is wealthy and Huck is impressed by their gaudily decorated home, they treat him with the utmost hospitality but only after they know he has nothing to do with the “Shepherdsons”. This family is stuck in a long standing feud with another local family, the Shepherdsons. Mark Twain uses these two families in his novel to mock of romanticized ideas about family honor. Ultimately, this feud gets many of the family members killed. The Grangerfords treat Huck as if he is their own son when the old lady takes care of him “Why, bless you, Saul, the poor thing‟s as wet as he can be; and don‟t you reckon it may be he‟s hungry” (Twain 101).Through these characters, Twain is giving the reader some clear pictures about the families of that time because he sheds light on the contradiction that the family owns slaves and at the same time they take care about the boy Huck who is a stranger. The Grangerfords are very rich as they own a huge number of slaves in their plantation, each member of the family owns a slave. Even Huck was given a slave to serve him but he finds it strange to have a slave because he did not have the habit of having one “Each person had their own nigger to wait on them—Buck too. My nigger had a monstrous easy time, because I warn‟t used to having anybody do anything for me” (Twain 109).
The “nigger” was following Huck in all the places. In this situation Twain is giving evidence about white people superiority and the way blacks are treated in society. Slavery is portrayed in the Grangerfords family, because each member of the family owns a slave. He also shows how Huck‟s slave helps him to find Jim who is hiding in the bushes “I poked into the place a-ways and come to a little open patch as big as a bedroom all hung around with vines, and found a man laying there asleep—and, by jings, it was my old Jim” (Twain 114). Here the role of the black slave is very important as he guides his master Huck to find Jim and from here Twain confirms that slaves are human and they are just like white people and should be treated in a good way.