Racism has been a part of life since forever, and it has been apart of other countries besides America, some even believe that it’s been around since the dawn of human forming tribes and such. The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, based on the life of a slave, was written after the civil war reflecting the views of how southerners treated and behaved with the slaves. In the novel some reasons of racism are that; most people were considerate on treating slaves respectfully compared to other white men, Jim wanting to be a freeman, the view of him traveling by society, and the social structure between the blacks and the whites. During the time people wouldn’t agree to this, but there are definite signs of racism throughout
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I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way” (Twain 86). When Huck took his time to apologize to Jim; he wasn 't treating Jim as an equal. Not only that, but Jim in-fact was considered a piece of property rather than a human being. If it didn 't take this long then it would have proved that Jim is equal and not a slave. Some may say that Huck did apologize, although he did apologize; He took his time to do it and showing how Huck’s first reaction was to treat Jim as subhuman rather as a piece of property. In the book Huck is viewed as this person who can tell what is right and what is wrong according to the critic, and not only at one point, but during numerous parts of the novel, “Huck has two choices. He can fulfil his legal and civic obligations by informing Jim’s right full owner, Miss.Watson, of his whereabouts on the Phelps plantation, a move that that restores Jim to his ‘proper’ place” (Smith 187). Here …show more content…
When he he was traveling, him and Huck encounter two men; the Duke and the King, and, “They asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the daytime instead of running-was Jim a runaway slave…it had a picture of a runaway slave with a bundle on a stick over his shoulder, and “$200 reward” under it’(Twain 126-134). There is clear evidence of racism here; It is clearly shown the view of racism in the book, which is how the Duke creates the flyer of Jim being a runaway slave, helping traveling easily. Also this was a win-win situation, for the Duke and Jim, because that would lessen the suspicion of Jim actually being a runaway when there is a fake flyer saying he is. Also, when Huck and Jim are on their journey, “ The author allowed Huck and Jim 's raft to pass the mouth of the Ohio River and the two runaways started to drift where no fugitive slave should go...Twain 's idealize Mississippi River began to monstrously transform itself into what it had, in reality, signified for participants in the domestic slave trade" (Valkeakari 31). In the review, Valkeakari here, wants to show how their journey wasn 't straightforward, instead it was just to make the audience feel what the life of Jim would be like
I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way” (Twain 86). When Huck took his time to apologize to Jim; he wasn 't treating Jim as an equal. Not only that, but Jim in-fact was considered a piece of property rather than a human being. If it didn 't take this long then it would have proved that Jim is equal and not a slave. Some may say that Huck did apologize, although he did apologize; He took his time to do it and showing how Huck’s first reaction was to treat Jim as subhuman rather as a piece of property. In the book Huck is viewed as this person who can tell what is right and what is wrong according to the critic, and not only at one point, but during numerous parts of the novel, “Huck has two choices. He can fulfil his legal and civic obligations by informing Jim’s right full owner, Miss.Watson, of his whereabouts on the Phelps plantation, a move that that restores Jim to his ‘proper’ place” (Smith 187). Here …show more content…
When he he was traveling, him and Huck encounter two men; the Duke and the King, and, “They asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the daytime instead of running-was Jim a runaway slave…it had a picture of a runaway slave with a bundle on a stick over his shoulder, and “$200 reward” under it’(Twain 126-134). There is clear evidence of racism here; It is clearly shown the view of racism in the book, which is how the Duke creates the flyer of Jim being a runaway slave, helping traveling easily. Also this was a win-win situation, for the Duke and Jim, because that would lessen the suspicion of Jim actually being a runaway when there is a fake flyer saying he is. Also, when Huck and Jim are on their journey, “ The author allowed Huck and Jim 's raft to pass the mouth of the Ohio River and the two runaways started to drift where no fugitive slave should go...Twain 's idealize Mississippi River began to monstrously transform itself into what it had, in reality, signified for participants in the domestic slave trade" (Valkeakari 31). In the review, Valkeakari here, wants to show how their journey wasn 't straightforward, instead it was just to make the audience feel what the life of Jim would be like