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The writer analyzes Mark Twain's views on race, religion and politics through an examination of the characters in his story, "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". Examples from the story are provided that demonstrate Twain's thoughts on slavery, God and the effects of a community's politics on the individual.

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"David "Pudd nhead" Wilson comes to the small town of Dawson's Landing to begin a career as an attorney, but the townspeople do not understand him, or his sense of humor, and they ostracize him. He does not get work as an attorney, and has to take odd jobs around town. He has an interest in fingerprinting, and studies that in his off time.
Dawson's Landing is a town that allows slavery, and Roxy, a slave woman gives birth to a child who is one-sixteenth black, and can pass for white. She trades her child with her master's child, who was born on the same day. Her child, called is now called "Tom," and she raises her master's son as a black child, who is now called "Chambers." She hopes that her son will be raised as white, and have a better life than she could give him."

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