Mark Twain's Logic in Huckleberry Finn Throughout the Antebellum

The antebellum was a time frame of the post-Civil War where the main conflict within society was centered on slavery. Slavery was a bondage that overpowered society, which, in my opinion had some influence on Huck’s shift during his escapade. When considering the significance the novel has in terms of the actual time frame occurring I feel the author made his ideas known by contradicting this time period. See, during this time a Caucasian along with a runaway slave was permanently death without query. Considering the symbolism within this book in terms of the Antebellum itself, I find that it’s only logical to conclude how he used the raft, the river, the day, and the night, as symbols to contrast the antebellum and portray the setting of the book significantly. Being that the raft was considered to be the mere communion of fellowship that was significant during the antebellum, he comes back to contradict himself by reiterating that the land in the same sense was the reality of how life was like. In the quote: “for the next day or two we had considerable trouble, because people was always coming out in skiffs and trying to take Jim away from me, saying they believed he was a runaway Negro. We don’t run day-times no more, now; nights they don’t bother us” (pages 135-136), he provides contrast with day and night which also relates to the raft (river) and land. Throughout his contradictions, I feel that Twain’s way of contradicting himself throughout his symbolism created analytical factors to consider life as if to live during the antebellum. He made the novel more significant by constantly regaining the reader by reinforcing the setting in which the adventures occured.