Analytical Essay On Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written from the time period in the south when slavery and inequality was a normal way of life. The book is written from the main character, Huck Finn’s, point of view. This included incorrect grammar and spelling. This way the reader could get a better understanding of the characters, time period and social interactions. Although Huck does not show any inequality between blacks and whites, it is shown through others in his adventures. White men in the south were thought to be honest and noble, while black men were thought of as “low down”. Through the telling of Huck’s adventures, the opposite was often discovered to be true and skin color did not determine a man’s character. Huck Finn’s father is a perfect example of a man who was presumed to be an honorable gentleman because of his white skin, but in truth was far from it. He was abusive, an alcoholic, and didn’t care anything about his son. All he wanted from Huck was Huck’s money and ability to get him food. Mark Twain writes of Huck’s father, “He put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him” (Twain 16). Twain later writes, “I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher, and pap took it and got drunk and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on” (Twain 16). An honest and noble
If a man was white, he was honorable. If a man was black, he was low-down and property. From the adventures of Huck and Jim, this assumption was found to be false in many cases. Many white men were hypocrites instead. They claimed they had honor, yet did unspeakable things. This shows you cannot know a man’s character just by the color of his skin. Some white men, such as Huck, were honorable while others were not. Some black men were honorable, such as Jim, and others were not. Skin color does not determine if a man is honorable, character does