Huck Finn
Changes in the twentieth century could change drastically concerning racism, prejudice feelings and hate. If this were to happen, it could be attributed to the education people now have by reading such novels as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain addresses these issues of racism, slavery and education in a humorous, almost childish way in order to keep the readers attention, yet the effectiveness is clearly visible. Twain uses Huck Finn and Jim as the ideal characters because they are the ones at the end of the novel who realize slavery is wrong. Mark Twain is trying to portray them through the protagonists and criticizes the failure to live up to them by portraying them through the antagonists. Prejudice can be observed throughout the novel by the way the other characters treat Huck. Twain portrays Huck as a normal boy of his time, being mischievous, adventurous and funny. The society Huck lives in labels him "uncivilized" because he has an abusive, drunk father. "... by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry and I couldn't stand it. I was all over with welts."(27)
Ole missus-dat's Miss Watson- she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she alwuz said she wouln' sell me down to Orleans. Twain's contemporary society did not react well to the hidden messages in the novel, which would explain why people banned and burned the novel. People who have a strong dislike for a certain race of people still exist today. Twain also shows the ideal of freedom through Jim and the failure to live up to that freedom when Miss Watson sells him. Through the ironic criticism of society trying to civilize Huck, Huck ends up teaching us a lesson on being civilized. The people of Twains society did not like being told they were wrong and they made that fact known. By doing a thing like that Jim could have been killed or beat. An example of someone in the novel doing this is Miss Watson, ". Now that society has advanced more in its ways, and the Civil War has ended, society should concentrate on moving into the twenty-first century not as whites, blacks, hispanics, and niggers but as human beings sharing this precious world. "(317) Like many people Miss Watson finally realized the wrong she did and put her "racist" views aside. Ultimately Twain tries to point that we can still make up for the injustices just as Miss Watson did when she set Jim free.
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