Love knows no limitations; Neither should Blacks:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Through The Eyes Of Love Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn presents perhaps the most influential moral dilemma of the 19th century. It explores slavery and its effects through the eyes of a young boy with a sharp moral compass. Throughout the novel, Huck must face slavery in its red eyes, while trying to discover himself, and the thing we call civilization. Huck must go against everything he has been taught in the South once he is confronted with the ultimate moral issue; turn in the runaway slave named Jim, or help him escape. Jim becomes not only a source of moral dilemma Huck must face, but a father figure to Huck, who manages to break the …show more content…
Twain’s entire message of the book was to show how blacks had feelings too, and that whites and blacks did not need to be apart. By portraying Jim as such a father figure to Huck, Twain was able to paint a convincing picture of what could be if the South drove past slavery. Jim, and all blacks, were to Twain, people, capably of emotion, instead of the property that many viewed them …show more content…
The novel uses Jim as a father figure to Huck, someone that cares deeply about him, regardless of race. The novel unites the two together, on an epic journey that continually tests their bond, but is never able to break it. In a multitude of chapters is Jim’s fatherly-ness viewed, and in countless others, is Huck’s changing view of slavery. Through Jim and his actions, Huck is able to push past the social and moral norms of his time, and becomes someone capable of seeing past the hatred. He becomes what we all want to; morally superior. Perhaps Twain is calling upon us all, to become like Jim, surpassing all limitations and chains, and to think like Huck, that all are equal and none are
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Through The Eyes Of Love Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn presents perhaps the most influential moral dilemma of the 19th century. It explores slavery and its effects through the eyes of a young boy with a sharp moral compass. Throughout the novel, Huck must face slavery in its red eyes, while trying to discover himself, and the thing we call civilization. Huck must go against everything he has been taught in the South once he is confronted with the ultimate moral issue; turn in the runaway slave named Jim, or help him escape. Jim becomes not only a source of moral dilemma Huck must face, but a father figure to Huck, who manages to break the …show more content…
Twain’s entire message of the book was to show how blacks had feelings too, and that whites and blacks did not need to be apart. By portraying Jim as such a father figure to Huck, Twain was able to paint a convincing picture of what could be if the South drove past slavery. Jim, and all blacks, were to Twain, people, capably of emotion, instead of the property that many viewed them …show more content…
The novel uses Jim as a father figure to Huck, someone that cares deeply about him, regardless of race. The novel unites the two together, on an epic journey that continually tests their bond, but is never able to break it. In a multitude of chapters is Jim’s fatherly-ness viewed, and in countless others, is Huck’s changing view of slavery. Through Jim and his actions, Huck is able to push past the social and moral norms of his time, and becomes someone capable of seeing past the hatred. He becomes what we all want to; morally superior. Perhaps Twain is calling upon us all, to become like Jim, surpassing all limitations and chains, and to think like Huck, that all are equal and none are