Racism is one's ignorance towards another's beliefs, religion, color, etc. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the main character, Huckleberry Finn is a very sheltered and uneducated boy. He comes from a family of low class who is very racist and in turn makes him also. Huck shows the characteristics of a racist many times during the novel and does this without even realizing how harmful it is because it comes naturally. At this time, blacks were still slaves and treated as pieces of property. Property Many People felt that property didn't need to be respected so neither did the black people.

In one incident, Huck actually feels compassion towards the black slave named Jim. He promises Jim that he will not tell anyone about Jim's escaping from Miss Watson's house. Huck then continues to say, "Well I did. I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest injun, I will. People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum-but that don't make no difference."(43) He actually sympathizes with the black man and starts to enjoy his company. I think he feels bad for the way he treats Jim. No matter how much he feels like

By the end of the novel, Huck comes to except Jim for who he is no matter what color he was or what background he came from. Jim was Huck's best friend and they made a bond that was very special to each other. When Jim becomes enslaved again by Tom's Aunt and Uncle, Huck decides to help Jim get free. Huck ends up running into Tom Sawyer because Tom was supposed to go to his Aunt and Uncle's house but Huck came and they had mistaken Huck for Tom. Huck convinces Tom to help him out with getting Jim free. He tells Tom "Now you work your mind, and study out a plan to steal Jim, and I will study out one too; and we'll take the one we like the best."(232) He wants to free Jim as soon as possible. Huck fights the feeling of how black people are unequal. He doesn't want to stoop to the level of how society treats blacks and neither does Tom. Huck says about Tom, "Here was a boy that was respectable and well brung up; and had a character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and he was bright and not leather-headed; and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feeling than to stoop to this business, and make himself a shame, and his family a shame, before everyone."(233-234) The bo

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