Huckleberry Finn Racism Analysis

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an important novel that shows how the two worlds of Huck and Jim collide to bring out the problems of racism and slavery before the civil war. Huck was a young, naive boy who is oblivious to the outside world. Jim was a slave with a big heart who looked at the world in a whole different perspective. Throughout the journey together Huck and Jim’s relationship was shaken by the cold reality of racism and slavery, thus slowly opening Huck's eyes to the world around him and creating a new foundation for friendship. When Jim and Huck go on their journey outside of St.Petersburg, Missouri a whole new world was opened up to them, they saw the country like never before.
Racism and Slavery before the civil war was …show more content…
This behavior was shown through Huck's trick on Jim where him coiled a rattlesnake up close to Jim, and he got bit by the rattlesnakes partner. “I killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jim’s blanket, ever so natural, thinking there’d be some fun when Jim found him there. Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake's mate was there, and bit him.” “(pg 59)” In the beginning Huck viewed Jim as stupid,that he did not have a brain but in reality Jim was not allowed the education that Huck was allowed because “In the eyes of slave masters, if slaves were permitted to learn to read and write the English language, they could begin to think and act on their own and rebellion was inevitable”(Langhorne, Monique) This is an important quote because it connects real facts from the world and relates them to Huck Finn to support how racism and slavery affected the relationship between Huck and Jim. The southern cultures beliefs were based purely on racism and slavery which impacted Hucks beliefs and gave him preconceived ideas about all black