Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Huck Finn

I dont think that the book Huck Finn is a raceist story at all. When people call this story raceist i think they are over anylizing the book. when we take the book for what it is like Twain says to it is infact a anti raceist story. When we look at the parts people say are raceist i think its really just a portrayal of the people and shows how bad they are like when the one lady says "thats good because sometimes people to get hurt" talking about when the black man died. This scene shocks us and makes us see how bad and evil people can be. Also in the book we see jim and huck as really best friends. When huck and Jim are on the river and free from society every thing is good the sit out naked together the talk and lay out under the stars and there is no raceism implied at all. It is when they go to the shore that the raceism shows and that is because they are in society. so it is society that is raceist in the story and Twain is sheding light on that and he wants you to make a change by seeing that.

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  1. Not sure who you are, Gypsy (so can't yet give you credit for this post), but I think you have a potentially good argument in suggesting that the racism present in the novel lends to its realistic portrayal of race relations in the south at the time.

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