Analysis Of The Book ' Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn ' By Mark Twain

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Finley Roles
November 18, 2016
Mrs. Fellinger
AP English 11

Defying Historical Stereotype in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Civilization evolves over time, trading old ideas for new ones. Society grows in intellect and innovation. Though, despite the heights that humanity has soared, impurity still remains. Regardless of the best efforts, millennia of oppression have ingrained the tendency to hate into the psyche of man, despite centuries of reform. Racism continues to propagate every corner of the globe. Yet, in his modern American novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain reveals the flaws in racism and the importance of suppressing it through his satirization of religious hypocrisy and elimination of details regarding the treatment of slaves, as well as the depiction of slaves themselves. Through his development of often platitudinous characters, Twain also manages to overcome the stereotype of race and demonstrate to the public that blacks and whites possess the ability to rise above or even sink below the racial boundaries set by literature. In general, the literature focuses on the Twain’s divergence from the familiar archetypes of benevolent white slaveowner and asinine black slave to more distinct characters. Nevertheless, he initially portrays Jim as the dim and superstitious archetype most individuals of the 1800s envision. He speaks with a very strong and, for some modern readers, offensive accent denoted heavily by various conjunctions and
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