Is Huck Finn a racist? This is a question that has been answered in several different ways. Some say he is very racist while others state he is just acting the way he was brought up. I don't see Huck as a racist for many reasons. For one he has a black friend. Another reason is Huck believes Jim cares for his family as much if not more than any white man. Finally the most important reason why I don't see Huck as a racist is he feels bad when he tricks Jim. Many will argue about the language Huck uses but truthfully it is just a representation of the beliefs and ideas at the time. This controversial question has been asked hundreds of times and there have been 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 than 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. So even though Huck uses these words he still sees Jim as Human.
             I also feel twain made his book seem racist to criticize the beliefs of his time. This is shown when 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, 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 to consider Huck a
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