Today’s society of everyone being free and racist looked down upon ,compared to society in the 1830’s with slaves and racism. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in Southern United States in the 1830’s. A young boy named Huckleberry Finn and a slave named Jim go off on an adventure that threw out it Jim is depicted as a man who knows nothing and is a stereotypical slave.
From the beginning of the story it is shown how Jim and other slave of that time are portrayed as a person with no say in his life. As Jim and Huck start on their adventure Jim falls asleep and Tom plays a prank on Jim by putting his hat up in the tree. “Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State”(6). This quote shows how Jim is portrayed as being unintelligent with believing in what had happened was because of witchcraft and not reasonably thinking it was a trick. Later in the story Jim falls asleep again and Huck decides it would be a good idea …show more content…
As Huck and Tom approach the slave feeding Jim, Huck describes the slave. “This nigger had a good natured chuckle headed face and his wool was all tied up with little bunches of thread. That was to keep the witches off. He said the witches was pestering him awful, these nights, and making him see all kinds of strange things and hear all kinds of strange words and noises”(237).As Tom, Huck, and Jim escape from the prison and Tom is shoot and needs a doctor so Huck runs off to go get one. After Huck talks to Jim when he begins to think to himself about what Jim is like“I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he'd say what he did say”(276). This quote shows how African Americans were thought of back when Mark Twain wrote the book. By today's standards what Mark Twain had said about Jim and the other slave would be looked down upon for not representing them
From the beginning of the story it is shown how Jim and other slave of that time are portrayed as a person with no say in his life. As Jim and Huck start on their adventure Jim falls asleep and Tom plays a prank on Jim by putting his hat up in the tree. “Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State”(6). This quote shows how Jim is portrayed as being unintelligent with believing in what had happened was because of witchcraft and not reasonably thinking it was a trick. Later in the story Jim falls asleep again and Huck decides it would be a good idea …show more content…
As Huck and Tom approach the slave feeding Jim, Huck describes the slave. “This nigger had a good natured chuckle headed face and his wool was all tied up with little bunches of thread. That was to keep the witches off. He said the witches was pestering him awful, these nights, and making him see all kinds of strange things and hear all kinds of strange words and noises”(237).As Tom, Huck, and Jim escape from the prison and Tom is shoot and needs a doctor so Huck runs off to go get one. After Huck talks to Jim when he begins to think to himself about what Jim is like“I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he'd say what he did say”(276). This quote shows how African Americans were thought of back when Mark Twain wrote the book. By today's standards what Mark Twain had said about Jim and the other slave would be looked down upon for not representing them