Slavery has been around for thousands of years. In Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, slavery is a large part of the culture. The thought of slavery is plane wrong in both aspects of owning and being a slave but many don’t have the same view. Slavery’s affect on past and present times has made it a large topic to examine. The Hypocrisy within slavery is a very obvious problem within the Southern culture for the United States. Jim the slave in the novel adds to the confusion of why slavery wasn’t abolished earlier. Huck’s ironic fight with himself makes the thought of slavery even more evil.
Exodus, a Book in the Old Testament explaining how the Israelites had problems within the Egyptian’s society and soon was enslaved. Trying to help free the …show more content…
The similarity between how they were treated and contained by their oppressors is astonishing. The Southern culture has a base root of Christianity, and with the knowledge of the book of Exodus the people of The United States of America still did not see the truth behind the matter of slavery. This is a very hypocritical way that the people of the south viewed their colored brothers. The U.S. should have seen the obvious truth behind slavery before we began to enslave the innocent African …show more content…
Jim respectfully listens and does exactly what the whites say. His respect comes from the multiple cussing and beatings that he received to remind him to never disobey. Once he escaped to Huck he began to realize that that he is just as much of a person as Huck and any other white man. Since Jim saw himself as equals with Huck, he also was able to argue and expose emotion he couldn’t with the common white man. “What do dey stan’ for? I’s gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin’ for you, en went to sleep, my heart wus mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’t k’yer no’ mo’ what had become er me en de raf” (Twain 85) Jim’s relationship with Huck was truly shown at this point because of the emotions that he showed were something that only true friends would
Exodus, a Book in the Old Testament explaining how the Israelites had problems within the Egyptian’s society and soon was enslaved. Trying to help free the …show more content…
The similarity between how they were treated and contained by their oppressors is astonishing. The Southern culture has a base root of Christianity, and with the knowledge of the book of Exodus the people of The United States of America still did not see the truth behind the matter of slavery. This is a very hypocritical way that the people of the south viewed their colored brothers. The U.S. should have seen the obvious truth behind slavery before we began to enslave the innocent African …show more content…
Jim respectfully listens and does exactly what the whites say. His respect comes from the multiple cussing and beatings that he received to remind him to never disobey. Once he escaped to Huck he began to realize that that he is just as much of a person as Huck and any other white man. Since Jim saw himself as equals with Huck, he also was able to argue and expose emotion he couldn’t with the common white man. “What do dey stan’ for? I’s gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin’ for you, en went to sleep, my heart wus mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’t k’yer no’ mo’ what had become er me en de raf” (Twain 85) Jim’s relationship with Huck was truly shown at this point because of the emotions that he showed were something that only true friends would