This
paper shows through Mark Twain's books "Huck Finn" and "A Connecticut Yankee" that one of Twain's major convictions
is that people are innately evil. With examples from both books to illustrate the point, the
paper shows how Twain uses his narrators as a channel to convey the message that society and the masses are cruel, and always projects a hero as the isolated person, brave enough to transcend the rules and achieve a higher ideal.