Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn deals with cruelty in society. Huck, a motherless boy grows up with the wrong idea of ​​society, not understanding how society works. Huck does not possess Tom's literacy, the social skills of the widows and Miss Watson, nor does he have the keen intelligence needed to understand the cruelty displayed throughout the novel. Mark Twain uses these references to give the reader a better understanding of how cruelty is shown through society and its beliefs regarding greed, slavery, and ideas of entertainment. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we see many aspects of man's inhumanity to man. Slavery is a broad topic that recurs throughout the novel. While we see many examples of slavery in the novel that address man's inhumanity to man, we are also given a background story of what it was like during this time to be a slave as seen through Jim. “It wasn't rootedness that held us back more than a little. We blew up a warhead. Good kind! Has anyone been hurt? No, I am. Killed a slave” (Twain 228). This shows that in that period there was not much care for a slave, slaves were like animals and were treated as such. “Typically the slave had no choice in anything that affected his personal life, and the world beyond his master's home and land was a vast terra incognita unless the master said otherwise.” By saying this Richard K. Barksdale shows that the slave was unable to have a say in his own lively neighborhood. Greed is also a very large and eternal issue in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “Well, I was selling an article for getting tartar out of teeth – and it gets it out too, and generally the enamel along with it” (Twain 124)……middle of paper……nue to unfold as he sees fit, and unfortunately this includes inhumane objections to the peace that humans wish to achieve Mark Twain uses these references to give the reader a better understanding of how cruelty is shown through society and their beliefs regarding greed,. slavery and ideas of entertainment. Twain tried to convey the message of man's inhumanity to man by showing how common it is and showing the causes. Although Twain expressed his concerns about society by stating the cruelty that some individuals they inflict on others, the message conveyed has been lost on many. Many do not care for others regardless of what is shown to them Even if they understood this and changed their way of life, there would still be an inhumanity towards man but not from man, it would instead come from mother nature, because in the end, mother nature is the biggest serial killer of them all.