The Awakening

In the beginnning of the Fredrick Douglass's novels, he imposes a question on the matter of him being deprived of same privilages . Both Edna and Huck suffer from ill treatments from more powerful beings . Jim, in short, exhibits all the qualities that "the Negro" supposedly lacks . His childhoood and that of Edna's has characteristic that they both questioned their identities right from the childhood . After running away , Jim tells Huck about his reason of leaving his place "Well ,you see, it 'uz dis way . Jim lacks the property of a typical " nigger " . "All right then, I'll go to hell. They find their inner peace through observing water . Jim faces racial troubles and Edna is a victim of 'sexism' . " This statement that he makes several times in the novel is the strongest evidence of his muscular feelings towards freedom . Edna doesnot show that much atttachment with her children and so is not very "fitted" in her environment . Huck feels a sense of security when on the raft and calls it his home, and Edna also shows her sense of security in water by drowning her being in it .