Is Huck Finn a racist? This is a question that has been answered in several different ways. I don't see Huck as a racist for many reasons for one he has a black friend. Many will argue about the language Huck uses and truthfully it is just a representation of the beliefs and ideals at the time. This controversial question has been asked hundreds of times and there have been many disagreements on Twain's intentions when he added certain aspects to his novel; I believe Huck was not a racist.
             Huck seems racist on the outside because of his use of words like nigger, but the book takes place in a different time then now. The book takes place in the south about twenty years before the civil war, a time when all black people were only considered slaves to the whites. If Jim had been referred to as an African American instead of a nigger or slave the language in this book would not have accurately reflected the ideas and beliefs of the time.
             I also feel twain made his book seem racist to criticize the beliefs of his time. For example this section where Aunt Sally learns of the steamboat explosion,
             "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" she asks.
             "No'm," comes the answer. "Killed a nigger."
             Twain does not mean this literally he ironically uses lines like this to show the truth about the old south, that it was a society of normal people who didn't consider the death of a black person a death of a human. To emphasize his point, twain has Aunt Sally continue:
             "Well, it's lucky, because sometimes people do get hurt."
             Another argument that could be used is the fact that Huck tricks Jim a few times throughout the novel. I see this as Huck having a little fun even though it's kind of mean. Huck would have done it to a white person if they were as uneducated as Jim and the other slaves are. Huck's trickery also relates back to the Ideas and beliefs of the time and gives a representati
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