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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book that has racial attitudes towards a society. It is

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book that has racial attitudes towards a society. It is written in a language which is more artistic than usual. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer may be a book for young adults and children, but the Adventures of huckleberry Finn is not so much for kids. Mark twain shows the evil in his society by satirizing the institution of racism by using irony.
Mark Twain’s best works is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The main characters in the book are Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Tin Sawyer. This book is about the adventures Huck Finn takes to get away from his drunkard father. When Huck gets suck of his father he decides to run away to Jackson’s Island which is in the middle of the Mississippi river. On …show more content…

Most critics say that Huck doesn’t condemn slavery or racial prejudice at all, but Huck seems to except Jim. However, since Huck sees passed racial stereotypes that involve Jim, it seems to be that it is a great development for him considering how Huck was raised. Hucks household included Widow Douglas and Miss Watson who owned slaves. His pap who would rant over a free black man shows his racial prejudice. When he would be confronted with the fact of a free black man that was educated and was allowed to vote, Pap would say that he did not want anything to do with the government that would allow such a thing. He would say that he wants the black man which he says are “a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger” sold at an auction (Telgen 9). That is to say, Pap thinks that all black people are slaves of white man’s property. These views of race are what Huck was raised with. But there is not an agreement on Twains meaning of race. Some critics see the novel as a satire on racism. They see it as a conscious statement on a racist society. Other critics stress the author’s difference about race.
The first racial side of this book is in the language that is uses. John H. Wallace comments about this to the Washington Post. “Huckleberry Finn uses the pejorative [insulting] term nigger profusely.” (Wallace) This book suggest that black people are never honest. But there is a part in the story where Huck had to apologize

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