Mark Twain lived during the era of slavery. As Twain wrote his novel Pudd’nhead Wilson, Twin had incorporated his ideology of slavery in his text. Although he addressed various point, I believe it was done so in a subtle manner to prevent the rejection of his text because of the time period he lived in. Twain addresses on many issues dealing with racism including the shallow mindedness of society, how slavery determine one’s outcome in life, and the extreme extent of which concept of racism went to. Pudd’nhead Wilson serves as a text that describe a story of times during the era of slavery, but also offers an insight to Twain’s critique on the ideology of racism. He does this by stating the criticism of racism on how it directed one’s role in society, people’s way of thinking, and how there was no way around this issue. In the novel Pudd’nhead Wilson, Twain displays the extent of absurdity that the views on one’s race went to. Twain uses language such as the one-sixteenth rule,“Only one-sixteenth of her was black, and that sixteenth did not show (9), to show how miniscule one’s race can dictate their role in society. Although not directly noting it in the text, there is an essence of sarcasm in Twain’s style of writing. He uses the words “only” to isolate the quantity of how Roxy’s African-American descent comprised such a small percentage of her heritage. However this small portion of her heritage is what ultimately decided her role in society. In a society where every visually appearing white person was granted a much better circumstance in life, this could not follow for Roxy because of the idea that 6.25% of her was “black”. In an alternative perspective, Twain could have stated that Roxy had a African background, and this is why she was given this way of life. However, the fact that he included an exact number of her African heritage reflects on Twain’s perception of the foolishness of society. Aside from Roxy being one-sixteenth black, Twain did not even need to mention her background at all, this would not change her position in context. He deliberately gave a brief synopsis of her background in order to show how the visual appearance of a person could be completely disregarded on the basis of an idea. Roxy’s character was not only presented for plot development, but served as a subtle depiction for Twain’s position on society during his time. Twain also made it clear that slavery was something that one could not