Racism In The Adventures Of Huck Finn Analysis

Mark Twain is a well-known novelist; his novels were a wide range from humor, details, and well-known characters. His most known literature, which are his classics include, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain’s notorious novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has been and continues to be very controversial due to the fact of him describing racism, yet not calling those acts racism. First off, in the book, Huck was listening to the sound of the clock that was away off in the town when he is startled by a continuous sound, “Me-yow! Me-yow!” as he looks out he sees Tom Sawyer waiting down at the bottom for him. They start up on a path and as they are walking, they encountered Jim, Jim was one of Miss

Mrs. Watson, was Hucks caregiver and Jim’s boss. She wanted nothing but for Huck to become a fine respectable young man. Huck was having mixed feelings about Jim having his freedom, but after all, he decides to go recue Jim. After coming to these terms with himself he even tore up the letter he was going to send to Mrs. Watson, providing the details saying who and were Jim was, and continued on his was to go get Jim. Although, his conscious keep troubling him knowing she would be deeply upset with him for even considering helping a runaway slave. “It was according to the old saying, “give a nigger an inch and he’ll take and ell.” Here was this nigger which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children --- children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know” and Huck thought about telling on him over and over until Jim says, “Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on’y white gentleman dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim.” This is the point where it showed the true meaning of the friendship that Huck and Jim has started since the journey both of them had

Back then, they would only think of African Americans as property and not humans. “No! That old fool sold him,” “Sold him?” I says, and begun to cry,” as they proceed talking Huck gets him to tell him to whom Jim has been sold… “A farmer by the name of Silas Ph— and then he stopped,” the man now knew that he had messed up. As Huck now knows, he goes along with what the man is saying , the man has changed and said that who really bought Jim was a Feller by the name of Abram G Foster, but Huck already knew that Silas had him. As Huck has now encountered the Phelps plantation, he had first seen a nigger woman and behind her little girl then two boys. After them comes the white woman with her children, “Children, its your cousin Tom!” Huck is now acting as if he is Tom Sawyer, as he proceeds on talking with his Aunt Sally about what has took so long and him not knowing the direction of the river, he proceeds to say “It warn’t the grounding—that didn’t keep us back but a little. We blowed outs a cylinder-head.” Aunt Sally says,” Good gracious! Anybody hurt?” “No’m. Killed a nigger.” Huck says, “Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.” Aunt Sally has referred to Jim as in “it” instead of the human he was, she would have considered the white folks as the people that do get hurt. This showed that Aunty Sally did not care about African American people, while