Although modern society largely scorns racism, racism still continues, making books like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story about slavery and racism, still relevant to today. The novel takes place in pre-Civil War America where slavery still exists, and it tells a story of a boy who goes on a quest to free Jim, a slave. During his quest, Huck, the boy, faces a series of events that force him into a position between two very different cultures. In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by reversing the black-white paradigm, Huck ultimately learns of the invalidity of the ideology behi...

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Throughout the novel, racism against blacks is prominent. White society saw blacks as property, rather than people, and the cruel acts the blacks endured weren't considered immoral. ... For example, he played malicious tricks on Jim without regard to how he would feel about it. ... Huck's journey allows readers to experience the racism through a young boy's eyes, and make the transformation to accepting all people as equals. ... That is what is so American about Huckleberry Finn. ...

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Although he reviles against the black professor, he is indeed embarrassing himself because he knows that the black professor has better ability to do things that he cannot do. ... Jim, however got very angry at Huck that Huck tried to lie him about such a serious thing. ... Since Pap was not a caring father to Huck at all, Huck sees Jim as a person who actually cares about his family more than Pap. ... Grown up as a typical white boy, Huck never doubts the fact that Blacks should be slaves, serving for whites. ... Twain uses Huck as a tool to show the readers how a young white boy could not sh...

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The young boy Huckleberry Finn is quite a character. He's what people would call a "real boy." ... The large burly black slave that accompanies Huck on many of his adventures was his supposed murderer. ... When in reality he only ran away upon finding out about Huck's departure. The enormous black man was respected greatly by slaves all over the area and further. ...

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The narrator is a thirteen year old boy. ... He opens by saying "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."" ... In a society where whites still believed that they were superior to blacks, Huck's speech was seen to be offensive. ... Twain writes of a beautiful relationship that occurred between a white boy and a black escaped slave. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not about racism at all, but the different elements of human relationships and interactions with one another. ...

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Another good example of verbal irony is when Levi Bell the lawyer says "Set down, my boy; I wouldn't strain myself if I was you. ... Another example of verbal irony that Twain uses in chapter 20 is when the duke and the king are interrogating Huck about their raft and Jim. ... It's quite interesting that Twain uses the fact that when someone tells you not to do something or warns you about something, it makes you even more curious. ... An example of situational irony is when Twain attacks the prejudices that society had against blacks, showing how ironical it was to blame a black man...

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Words Hurts What would you do if you where a little boy who was taught about racism when you where a child and you had to pick the right thing to do or the wrong thing? ... Twain was just writing what was said and it would sound strange if he used black man or black person instead of nigger. ... This is a little boy that had to choose slavery or a friend. Huck decides to save black mans life over his own. Now what does that tell you about what Twain wrote? ...

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The central relationship of the story is that of a runaway slave, Jim, and a young and adventurous boy, Huck. ... In these pages one hears almost exclusively about Jim's various superstitions. ... This is significant because Jim, a black slave, is teaching Huck, a white boy, an important moral lesson. ... Jim takes Huck's night watch so that the boy can sleep. ... In actuality, Jim, a black man, cares much more for "his people" than Pap, a white man, had ever cared for Huck. ...

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This is the idea that Mark Twain, famous American author, expresses in his novel through the voice of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn. ... "I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich. I heard about it away down the river, too. ... However, while trying to become a hero, Tom forgot about Jim and didn't pay much attention to the fact that he was risking Jim's life. ... Huck, a low class white boy who has been told to be cruel to blacks since he was little and someone constantly surrounded by people who are greedy for money of power, learning how cruel society can...

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They live in an ethically confused society in which 'good' whites like Sally Phelps and Miss Watson show no concern for the treatment of the black society. ... From the beginning, Twain portrays Huck as a teenage boy who belongs to the lowest level of the white community. ... The boy is dirty and often homeless. ... This statement means that blacks are unappreciative and would take advantage of anything done for them. ... He learns about life in real world situations, developing his identity and a good conscience. ...

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Through Huck (the protagonist) and Jim, Twain unveils the human connection between a white boy and a black man and shows that their friendship is stronger than the obstacles put in front of them by the culture they live in. What is unique about this book is that Twain's own boyhood experience was when slavery was an accepted practice in the South. ... As Huck is being told about this, his own sentences become questions and quicker. Huck is worrying about his friend, and that is why the sentences speed up. ... Huckleberry Finn is a tale of a boy who fights his society for someone else....

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Everything that Huck says reflects the racism and black stereotypes typical of the era. ... Huckleberry Finn still stands as a powerful representation of experience through the brand new eyes of an innocent boy. ... If the author wished-for the story to be racist, he would not write about the way Huck felt towards Jim. ... Twains novel Huckleberry Finn should be portrayed as a novel that represents a young boy that grew up in that era and not one that represents racial bigotry. The ridicule of the slave race in the end permitted by Huck is more about pleasing the awes of Huck toward Tom. ...

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Huck cannot understand why "a boy that was respectable and well brung up had a character to lose folks at home that had characters bright and not leather-headed and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean but kind to stoop to this business and make himself a shame, and his family a shame." Huck does not realize that Tom will do anything for entertainment, even gamble with the freedom of a black slave. ... It lacks the risk and danger that he has read about in his adventure stories. ... He decides that they should dig Jim out which could take about a week. ... He highlights the differences be...

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This is why Twain uses Jim, a black slave, as a symbol of society's racism and ignorance. ... During Huck's adventure with Jim, Huck realizes much about himself through Jim. ... The fact that a white boy apologized to an older, black slave, was ground- breaking and very controversial for this time period. The apology reflects Twain's feelings towards blacks himself. ...

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The problem at this juncture of the novel is that Huck does not reciprocate Jim's feelings about him. ... Huck would say that this isn't natural because he didn't know that black people had feeling just the same as whites did. He thought they didn't care about anything and weren't as civil as white people. He realizes blacks are the same as whites. 6. ... The perception we have of Huck Finn at the beginning of the novel is that of a poor, uneducated boy. ...

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This book is a great literary masterpiece the book is mainly about huck an his new friend Jim a run-away slave owned by the widow Douglas who took in huck to civilize him. ... Huck is a thirteen-year-old boy whose father is the town dunk of ST, Petersburg, Missouri. He is also a clever a street smarts boy even though he has not been in school he can take care of himself and others. ... By doing this huck refuses to pay any attention to anything that he was taught about slaves. ... Huck sacrifices himself for a black friend he has come to love as an Equal. ...

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In his novel, Twain uses the "n-word" in casual dialogue "as a way to underscore the chilling truth about the old South, that it was a society where perfectly "nice" people didn't consider the death of a black person worth their notice.... Huck Finn allows us to see the views of black people from a white, southern boy. For example, when Jim gets mad at Huck for lying about his dream, Huck feels bad. ... " Huck wasn't happy about having to apologize to a black man, but he did it anyways. ... Twain purposefully used the "n-word" not as a put-down...

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In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, a young troubled boy goes on an adventure with a runaway slave. The name of this boy is Huckleberry, who is usually just referred to as Huck, and the runaway slave whose name is Jim. ... She says that she will not tell anyone about Huck's visit. ... Back in Huck's time most religious people would have thought that black people were made as a lesser race. ... They went along with slavery so easily because they would have thought that God made blacks like that so it is alright to go with it. ...

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Twain portrays Huck as an average boy of his time, mischievous, adventurous and funny. ... Watson's run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. ... This shows the reader that blacks are so low, that the white people place prices on the blacks. ... HE hopes to educate and persuade the reader about the evils of "some rich bastard" and the "damn govamen". ... Student should learn about history and the neg...

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Although she is a child who has a black housekeeper, she doesn't really know of the prejudice that still lingers against them. ... Even though Scout had her doubts about Tom Robinson's charges being dropped at all, she was still crushed by the fact that the entire jury would vote against him. ... Huck is forced to face the same problem as Scout; the way you are seen in the eyes of society for helping and enjoying the company of blacks. ... Huck's ability to choose over something he has thought about deliberately and not act only on impulse and instinct shows how his maturity has...

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As Huck and Jim float down the river in their journey for freedom, each of their adventures shows us a little more about how Mark Twain felt about the South, and it's views on slavery, brotherhood, and society as a whole. ... We are shown that every male in the family is shouldering a rifle, including the youngest boy, around the age of thirteen. ... Kuhne goes on to say, "He wrote essays about atrocities committed against black, attacked plantation- and slave-owners, in Life on the Mississippi, and made slavery Pudd"nhead Wilson's "constant theme", picturing the hopelessness of so...

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The women do all they can to bring Huck up to be a decent boy with manners, etiquette; they also send him to school and to church. ... He gains custody of the boy but luckily Huck gave away his money so his father can't steal it. ... She also hears about how Jim was faithful to Tom that she decides to fix him up real well and let him go free. ... *Being Loyal to Friends A good lesson everyone can learn about from Jim. ... Any other black american would have chose to run and get far away from the plantation but Jim chose to stay. ...

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In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain tells the story of a young Southern boy's adventures and his discovery of how society works. ... Huck learns from this experience about the average man and his limitations. ... Also, when he is being taught about the history of religion, he learns that Moses has been dead for a long time, so he decides right there that he does not need to worry about it. ... With this new insight about Jim, Huck is more accepting and eager to help him escapes slavery, and a world that is inhumane toward black people. ... Huck, a white person, is reject...

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Huck and Jim have a friendship, which is transformed through time and trust, but always has the reminder that one is white and the other is black. ... Huck is a strong-willed, free-spirited individual who attempts to portray himself as a bad boy, but he often finds himself doing just the opposite. ... As a result, Huck feels bad and apologizes to Jim, which shows that Huck now has respect for him, even though he is black. ... He cares too much about Jim to deny Jim's existence and humanity. ... Though he doesn't make it clear this truth to himself, he essentially trades his fate ...

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As the two struggle to maintain their freedom, Huck constantly challenges his morals with the way he was brought up, as a racist southern boy, and his own personal beliefs. ... This was the general accepted view of black people in this society. ... He is shown ranting and raving because they allowed a black man to vote. ... This may not be entirely accurate because although Huck may not be racist, he has been raised by extremely racist -3- individuals who have instilled certain ideas about blacks in his head. ... Because of his upbringing, Huck begins the story believing the slavery ...

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