Mark Twain 's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

     Since Huck is the center piece of the novel people could say that Mark Twain expressed himself through the character. They would use the fact Huck was degrading Jim. As I have said Huck was raised that way from a child, but he evolved to different beliefs. In the beginning after Huck and Jim have run away they find each other. Huck’s first step to overcoming prejudice occurs on that island. Huck feels relief that he is no longer alone and needs Jim for comfort. You start to see a bond form which never forms between man and his "property". This may not be a gigantic step but it is a step. As the story unfold farther they form a rather special bond of needing each other which shows strong when Jim is auctioned off. He decides to save Jim which is totally unheard of for a white to do for a black. At first he challenges his views of religion whether or not he should write Miss Watson, his owner, and probably still lose Jim for good, or go for Jim himself. Huck decides

Many view Huckleberry Finn as a racist book for the portrayal of the runaway slave, Jim, but Twain writes from Huck’s point of view, who was a product of his society. In the book, while using dialect and actions accurate for the time and location, Twain never portrays Jim in a negative light. In contrast to Huck’s father, Jim cares about Huck. For example, when Jim and Huck are reunited after getting lost in the fog, Jim tells Huck, “my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’ k’yer no mo’ what become er me en de raf” (p. 157), as opposed to Huck’s father who only wants him around to prove he has control over Huck. This shows the difference between his white father who should be a strong male figure in his life, and a black man who actually looks out for Huck. Throughout the book, Huck comes to realize more and more that Jim is human just like

In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain juxtaposed events in American society to demonstrate to the reader contrasts between different levels of class and race in society.

These examples are necessary for historical accuracy. So Mark Twain had to display Jim’s treatment in this manner even if it was not the way he felt. Huck however does not treat Jim as most whites do. Huck see Jim as a friend and by the end of their journey disagrees with society’s notion that blacks are inferior. There are two main example of this in the story.

He constantly found himself battling on whether to help Jim or turn him in, which would be more sociably acceptable. But as Huck befriended him, he came to realize that Jim was more like him than he previously assumed. And after witnessing Jim's emotional outburst concerning his daughter, Huck thought that Jim "cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n. It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it’s so" (Twain 117). But this goes against everything he would have been taught to support slavery. One of the rationales behind slavery is that black people aren't humans, but "animals"/"savages". But by Twain showing Jim as having emotions that even a white person can identify with, he displays how the conception that blacks are emotionless animals is untrue. And later on, when he once again struggles with turning in Jim, Huck's actions sheds light on how cruel slavery is and the worth of a black persons life. He came to the decision that he would even risk going to hell to set Jim free, as he stated "All right, then, Ill go to hell" (Twain 162). After experiencing how Jim treated him and how much he acted like a normal "white person" would, Huck was able to realize that Jim's life was equally as valuable as his own and that forced labor would be injustice. Additionally, Twain used Jim's actions in contrast to characters such as the king, Duke, and Pap to further prove his

Even more powerful, is the idea that Jim is essentially a good person thus the law ruing his escape is not right. Although Huck knows the difference between right and wrong, he did not live his life in the standard society causing him to create his own sense of justice. He sees Jim as the only character who is really truthful. Most prominently Huck’s own father, Twain creates numerous white characters who although may not be a slave are still malicious people. Twain’s anti-slavery bias is clearly demonstrated through the fact that Jim is the only person young Huck can depend on. This proves Twain’s attitude that white people are not better simply on the color of their skin hence the entire system of slavery is

From the beginning of the story, Mark Twain, the author of the story Huckleberry Finn,

During this time period slavery was a normal circumstance that was widely accepted, which was greatly exposed in Twain’s novel. Although slavery is present throughout the text, Twain did not intend to recommend this idea, in fact it is believed that Twain was attempting to show the ignorance of white men in that time period for treating African Americans like slaves and seeing them as less than themselves. He shows us this through the character Jim, a runaway African American slave who was constantly reliable and honest to his friends Huck and Tom, even though they both seem to be disloyal to him at times. Jim constantly cared for, and did what was best for the two even if it meant giving up his own freedom. Jim was made to show the good qualities that were present in African Americans as other Caucasian characters represent the bad qualities in white men by degrading Jim and other African Americans. Through his novel, Twain exploits the idea that slavery should have never existed and it was a bad mistake by

The term ‘freedom’ can have many separate definitions. However, they all share a similar concept of psychological independence from whatever acts as a restraint. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he emphasizes two different variations of freedom between the main characters Huck and Jim. Although the two run away together because they coincidentally have one thing in common, their perspectives on their similar goal are different. Huck shows the reader what it means to desire freedom from common society and from societal norms that prevent him from doing and acting however he wants to. Meanwhile, Jim gives the reader a darker and more unidealized desire of freedom because he is a slave that wants to be free from his

and he does not want to hurt him after all the things Huck went through to escape his father. Jim’s actions in distracting Huck from seeing his dead father’s face displays how Jim’s is a good-hearted fatherly figure to the white boy, even though Jim is a different race than Huck, it does not determine Jim’s identity and human morals for being African American. Jim treats Huck as his son to provide the fatherly father to him that he never had. Moreover, Mark Twain’s key message overall is to represent that slaves, especially Jim has equal human morals as whites because he is a considerate, caring, and mindful human being that deserves respect. In addition, while

Another example of Twain’s Africanist portrayal of Jim as an emotionally stunted, subhuman creature is when Huck decides to play a trick on Jim and make him think he dreamed of losing Huck in the fog, not realizing it to be a cruel joke that would make Jim sad, even angry. The remorse Huck feels following this exchange surprises him, “But that was enough. It made me feel so mean that I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back. It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to [Jim].” (Twain 65). The dialogue of the Huck’s apology is not known, but Twain does imply that Huck makes things right again, which would have been an unacceptable breach of social custom at the time.

I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way. (Twain 91) Another way people do not see this book as a racist novel is how the main character, Huck, and Jim stay with each other throughout the novel. Huck and Jim also do not betray one another and have each others backs. He’s forced to wrestle with his conscience, and when the crucial moment comes he decides he will be damned to the flames of hell rather than betray his black friend. Meanwhile, Jim, as Twain presents him, is hardly a caricature. Rather, he is the moral center of the book, a man of courage and nobility, who risks his freedom -- risks his life -- for the sake of his friend Huck. (Salwen) Huck's and Jim's trust in each other shown in the books proves why many believe this book is not

It's not only Huck's perspective of Jim who changes, its Jim's perspective of Huck--he saw Jim more of a friend than someone who is superior to him. Douglass and Twain were both able to illustrate the progress both characters made in respect to their white accomplices, who technically broke the law to help

“The Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn” was written by Mark Twain. This book is about two boys named Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer who travel up the Mississippi River and come upon different adventures along the way. The book has two major themes and life lessons that stand out the most which is honor and slavery. Honor comes into play in the second chapter when Tom shows there is a deal of honor associating with stealing. They steal a lot throughout the novel but it all comes into play at the end of the book they have to steal Jim, freeing him from slavery. Mark Twain uses slavery when Jim is a slave and he expresses his life into the worst way slaves were treated. The book’s setting is the main topic throughout the story. The setting takes

There are many different time periods in literature, and throughout these periods the way authors or poets wrote their works gradually changed during each period. These periods are known as realism, modernism, and also post-modernism. As one period of literature would come to a close and the new one would begin author wanted to make a change in the way literature was written. With each change in period, author 's would want to do something different than the previous period due to the fact of the culture and what was going on in society during them.