Do you ever feel your life was decided on the day of birth? Most people will answer “no”. Because nowadays people understand that possibilities and chances are for everyone. But there is a time period that everyone’s fate is already written down? The story of Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain tells people the life by the Mississippi river in that time era. The story happens before the civil war. It describes a list of stories that happened on a white boy named Huck and many people Huck and Finn met during the adventure. Race is the most important factor influences Huck, Jim and town peoples’ different attitudes to people with different racial, families and the ways people live a lot.
First and for most, people have worse attitude …show more content…
Because of slavery, Jim was separated from his family. Jim talked about his dream which is “how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough, he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn’t sell them, they’d get an Ab’litionist to go and steal them. (Twain 110)” We can see Jim’s children loses their freedom and may face the risk of being sold. He even need to risk his own life just to have a normal family. But in the otherwise, the whites’ family is quite different. In the other hand, we can see Mr. Grangerford family has several children. The family is wealthy and happy. And they even seek for higher level ideal- religion. “It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too. I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style. It didn’t have an iron latch on the front door, nor a wooden one with a buckskin string, but a brass knob to turn, the same as houses in town. The old lady took care of the room herself, though there was plenty of niggers, and she sewed there a good deal and read her Bible there mostly. (Twain 156)
First and for most, people have worse attitude …show more content…
Because of slavery, Jim was separated from his family. Jim talked about his dream which is “how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough, he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn’t sell them, they’d get an Ab’litionist to go and steal them. (Twain 110)” We can see Jim’s children loses their freedom and may face the risk of being sold. He even need to risk his own life just to have a normal family. But in the otherwise, the whites’ family is quite different. In the other hand, we can see Mr. Grangerford family has several children. The family is wealthy and happy. And they even seek for higher level ideal- religion. “It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too. I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style. It didn’t have an iron latch on the front door, nor a wooden one with a buckskin string, but a brass knob to turn, the same as houses in town. The old lady took care of the room herself, though there was plenty of niggers, and she sewed there a good deal and read her Bible there mostly. (Twain 156)