In this novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", there is
a lot of race issues going on. Huck would have been raised to
believe that the white race was superior to the whites. A normal white kid in
this time period would have not been like Huck. A normal kid would have thought
that whites were better, smarter, and more qualified. My favorite thing about Huck
is that he is different from the normal. Not once does he say anything racist
toward Jim or any other black person. The only thing he said was "nigger" and
that's because it was said all around in that time. Huck accepts Jim for who he
is and doesn't judge him just because the color of his skin.
I agree Huck does accept Jim for who he is and not for the color of his skin and Huck does not in any way judge Huck based on skin color.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this, mostly because of the different perspective Huck had than all of the other kids around him at the time. that And just the general idea of a non-racist person I believe is always helpful to the growth of any community.
ReplyDeleteI really agree with you. I think it's awesome how Huck is so accepting of Jim, even though he's not white. I like the fact that there's someone who's accepting of people who aren't accepted by society.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Huck as a character and friend to Jim is refreshing. I don't know how he came to believe blacks were equal with whites, but it's obvious that the difference between blacks and whites in Huck's mind was almost nonexistent. I only say Almost nonexistent because it's not like the fact the African Americans were slaves and white people were the owners of these slaves. If that fact ever went into his thoughts he disregarded it because he's an excepting person and I like that.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you. In this book, I have not heard Huck say anything racist either. The fact that he had kind of grown up with black people around him I think really helped with that.
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