huck finn

Huck has grown up in a hypocritical town where “moral” is what they want not really what is right. Society makes blacks seem like dirt but Huck does not think that once he gives Jim a chance. On the river he sees Jim as an equal, but Jim still has the impression that whites are smarter so he best listen to them. Even in history class this issue is dealt with, but just a different word is used than “nigger“. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There is no need to ban this great piece of literature if you do not wish to read it there are always other assignments but do not ban the book on one word. Base it on the meaning of this piece of literature, which is about a slave who breaks the law and risks his life to win his freedom and be reunited with his family, and a white boy who becomes his friend and helps him escape (Swift). “Huck Finn Ignites State Controversy” Yahoo. very is part of the natural order; but as the novel goes on he fights with his conscience, and when the crucial moment comes he decides he will be damned to the flames of hell rather than betray his black friend (Swift).

When on the shore Huck has to treat blacks as very inferior because if he does not he will be seen as abolitionist, and that was not good in the eyes of whites. Huck realizes that Jim has a family and feelings too. This is the way they lived; this is how it was.