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Examples Of Racism In Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a very controversial book due to its use of racism. Although the racism in the book is historically accurate and is meant to make the reader uncomfortable, many want to rid The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from schools. Huck Finn experiences this racism everyday and grew up with this racism. Huck’s views of slaves are higher morally than many people’s during the time, however. An example of Huck’s morals is seen when he becomes friends with Jim very quickly on the island. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn’s morals are challenged with an internal conflict to ultimately decide the future of Jim’s life. The escape to freedom on the raft brings Huckleberry Finn his Challenge, an internal conflict of morals that he had not been expecting. Huck reflects on his internal battle while cruising down the river with Jim on the raft when he says, “...I begun to get it through my head that (Jim) was most free—and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn’t get that out of my conscience…” (Twain 91). Huck is mad at himself because he is helping Jim, a slave, escape even though he was taught that slaves are property not people. Although he does not say this, part of the reason he is angry, if not the only reason, …show more content…

Huck Finn reflects on his lowest point of his internal conflict when he says, “I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they?” (Twain 215). At this point in the book, Jim has been taken and sold to a nearby farm and Huck feels very sad and is confused as to why he feels that way. He was taught that slaves are not the same as white people and therefore its impossible for him to have a personal connection with Jim, a slave. This reflection ultimately leads to Huck’s

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