Huckleberry Finn And Racism Essay
Friendship Over Racism
Throughout history the book The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has been changed, altered and in some cases not even allowed to be read in school because of Mark Twain‘s use of words.Throughout the novel, Mark Twain develops a relationship between a young boy and African American man and effect of friendship over racism.
In the beginning of the novel when Huck and Jim were sailing on the Mississippi, Huck didn't see Jim as a person, he saw him the way society saw him. Huck was raised in a society where slaves were property, and they got treated differently than everyone else. Huck tends to have an immature side to him."They get down on one thing when they don't know nothing about it." (Twain 2), Huck thinks everything …show more content…
At one point he left a snake in Jim’s bed , "That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it" (Twain 40.) Huck’s pranks reflect his attitude towards Jim. When the novel starts to come to an end you start to see Huck consider Jim as a friend. The first effort shown by Huck is when he risks getting in trouble by lying to the men in order to keep Jim safe, the men said "Keep away, boykeep to looard. Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us. Your pap's got smallpox, and you know it precious well (Twain 112.) That is when the label of color and societies view on who is higher than who turned from racism into friendship.
After all the changes the novel, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has been though. Mark Twain ends up writing one of the most famous books ever to be read. He shows, although we can't change society, we can show who society really is, and how a young boy can make a small difference, when standing up between what is right and wrong. The powerful force of friendship between a young boy and an African-American, from the beginning they were nothing more than owner and property but by the end they were more, they were
Throughout history the book The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has been changed, altered and in some cases not even allowed to be read in school because of Mark Twain‘s use of words.Throughout the novel, Mark Twain develops a relationship between a young boy and African American man and effect of friendship over racism.
In the beginning of the novel when Huck and Jim were sailing on the Mississippi, Huck didn't see Jim as a person, he saw him the way society saw him. Huck was raised in a society where slaves were property, and they got treated differently than everyone else. Huck tends to have an immature side to him."They get down on one thing when they don't know nothing about it." (Twain 2), Huck thinks everything …show more content…
At one point he left a snake in Jim’s bed , "That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it" (Twain 40.) Huck’s pranks reflect his attitude towards Jim. When the novel starts to come to an end you start to see Huck consider Jim as a friend. The first effort shown by Huck is when he risks getting in trouble by lying to the men in order to keep Jim safe, the men said "Keep away, boykeep to looard. Confound it, I just expect the wind has blowed it to us. Your pap's got smallpox, and you know it precious well (Twain 112.) That is when the label of color and societies view on who is higher than who turned from racism into friendship.
After all the changes the novel, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has been though. Mark Twain ends up writing one of the most famous books ever to be read. He shows, although we can't change society, we can show who society really is, and how a young boy can make a small difference, when standing up between what is right and wrong. The powerful force of friendship between a young boy and an African-American, from the beginning they were nothing more than owner and property but by the end they were more, they were