The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a troublesome boy in the mid 1800’s who runs away from his caretaker and gets into many different situations after that, like dressing up as a girl, getting on a boat with a bunch of thieves, and meeting con-artists who scam almost an entire town. But, the most important situation he gets in is when he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Jim and Huck both stay together in most of the story and both become friends. This was not usual since this was when slavery was legal. Because of this, the universal theme of the story is that race doesn’t make you more or less civilized than another race. Two motifs that can support this theme in the book are Race and Civilized Society.
Race in the story first emerges in Chapter 6 when Pap talks about a freed slave in Ohio that voted and how he completely disagreed with him voting. He quotes, “When they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote again…I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?” This shows that people like Pap don’t agree with anyone that was a slave, or even black, should have the rights of any white person.
Race develops more in Chapter 15 when Huck, who is also a bit racist, has to apologize to Jim and doesn’t want to, but does. He …show more content…
The quotes says, “The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father. So Judge Thatcher and the widow had to quit on the business.” This shows that society didn’t want to separate a father and son, even if he wasn’t a good
Race in the story first emerges in Chapter 6 when Pap talks about a freed slave in Ohio that voted and how he completely disagreed with him voting. He quotes, “When they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote again…I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?” This shows that people like Pap don’t agree with anyone that was a slave, or even black, should have the rights of any white person.
Race develops more in Chapter 15 when Huck, who is also a bit racist, has to apologize to Jim and doesn’t want to, but does. He …show more content…
The quotes says, “The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father. So Judge Thatcher and the widow had to quit on the business.” This shows that society didn’t want to separate a father and son, even if he wasn’t a good