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Ben Rogers: Ransomed? What's that?
Tom: I don't know. But that's what they do. }}
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: The book is scathingly anti-slavery, but is often banned from schools for supposed racial
* [[Punny Name]]: A "granger" is a cattle rancher; cattle ranchers and sheepherders were old rivals in the 1800s, thus the Grangerfords and Shepardsons don't get along.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Parodied to pieces by Tom's plan to free Jim, which could be done simply and quickly, but Tom insists on engineering around the [[Rule of Cool]]. {{spoiler|It goes badly.}}
* [[The Runaway]]: Huck's escape from his [[Abusive Parents|alcoholic father]] sets up the rest of the plot.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Huck helps the fugitive slave Jim escape from being sold back into slavery even though he is told (and he believes!) he would go to hell for such actions.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Tom models his adventures on the stories he's read. The careful reader can identify the specific stories even when he doesn't mention the
* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: The Duke and the Dauphin are this and just about every other kind of [[Con Man]], except maybe the Competent sort.
* [[Spotting the Thread]]:
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