Race Relations with Huck Finn
Famous writers come and go every year. How do these writers become famous? Humans are fascinated with real life situations, tagged in with fictional story line. Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, describes real life situations, in a fictional story line perfectly. Twain put the real life happenings of slavery, in a fun and fictional story. The novel is mainly about the racial relations between each human. Classes of society, loyalty/friendship, and rebellion shows how the novel evolves into a main theme of Race Relations. Through out the history of the world, people have been placed into categories based on their wealth, and all of the worldly possessions that we have. These classes of society can really make people talk, and act differently towards some people. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the novel shows these classes really well. In the beginning of the novel, we see a little bit of the black class, and how they were treated. "Miss. Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door, we could see him pretty clear" (14). Jim, Miss. Watson's run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the sub ordinance that blacks were placed in America, becau
Another point that is with the main theme of race relations is loyalty/friendship. Huck shows this by being with Jim in the beginning, and shows some trust in Jim. The beginning of this friendship is seen when Huck goes to Jim with a problem with his Father coming back, and Jim says " sometimes he spec he'll go 'way, en den ag'in he spec he'll stay" (26). That response from Jim really shows the reader that he cares about Huck, and he understands what Huck is saying. Like any relationship, it has to have an open, honest and submit caring feelings for one another. Jim proves that he cares by helping Huck, and telling the truth, even when it hurts. Later on in the novel, Jim and Huck are going down the river, and Huck is continuously faced with the same problem. Huck does not know whether to turn Jim in or not. When a problem comes up, people can see how loyal or how much your friendship means to somebody when a problem occurs frequently. Huck says to himself "s'pose you'd a' done right and give Jim up? Would you felt better than what you do now? No, I'd feel bad-I'd feel just the same way I do now" (94). With that decision by Huck, that shows two people the same thing. This shows both Jim and the reader that Jim is too good of a friend to be back stabbed. With that decision, Huck proves his loyalty to Jim, no matter if he is black or white. Finally, at the end of the novel, we find out how much Huck appreciated Jim's good attitude through the whole adventure of going to New Orleans. When "Tom give Jim forty dollars for being prisoner for us so patient...." (278), shows that Tom and Huck were very thankful for putting up with them, and their crazy ideas. The act of giving Jim the money proves Huck and Tom were very grateful for Jim's loyalty to do everything. The loyalty towards Huck was seen through the whole story. From being tied up, being painted or even being treated worse, Jim knew it was worth it. He was loyal and friendly towards the two children, because if it were not for them, he would still be a slave. Loyalty and friendship deals with race relations because even if somebody was black, or white, Huck showed that blacks were every bit as fun, caring and normal as the white people. Even if it meant rebelling against the law, loya
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Approximate Word count = 1536
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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