Huck Finn In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Imagine a white child being born and the first and only thing he is told is that black people are an inferior race. If he acts upon this idea, is he being moral? The previous visual is an exact depiction of Huckleberry Finn in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn’s father teaches him that white men are superior to black people and leads Huck to believe that it is appropriate to be racist. Huck Finn continues to be slightly racist throughout the book, but as his adventure with Jim progresses, he realizes that Jim is as similar to him as any other white man, and he starts to treat Jim differently based upon this notion. Even though Huck Finn’s treatment of Jim fluctuates throughout the book, his treatment of Jim changes

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