- The morals of Huck Finn are inspiring as he befriends Jim and begins to treat him better and better throughout the book and see him as a person just as himself. This book is good to read because these ideas of acceptance to blacks should inspire us and make us want to do the same thing. But on the other hand, this book was all about the times it was written in which are harder to apply to today.
- It's easy to see how people would get offended by the over use of the n word in Huck Finn. But again its about the times and even though it was still an offensive word back then, thats how people were taught to treat them and Huck didnt know any better. As Huck refers to Jim as a "nigger" its not because he is purposely trying to offend him and call him a demeaning term. Huck was raised to treat blacks in such a way and in his mind, they are what people call them. This is one way that the book is considered really good- because we can see Hucks feelings towards Jim change throughout the story and his ideas that he was brought up to completely turn out of sympathy and caring for Jim's character. It shows us that it doesnt matter how we are raised, we can still make our own decisions and do the right thing even if we may not thing what we are doing is "thr right thing to do".
- Twain makes Jim's character look foolish and dumb. They say that this is an offensive stereotype towards blacks, but there is really no way to prove that Jims character is meant to be a reflection on all slaves and blacks. We can't say that just because one character happens to be portreayed as stupid and happens to black, that the book is racist. That would mean that no one could ever write about a character being a certain way and not have the book be considered racist towards the race of that specific character. Because if Twain wrote about a character with the same personality traits as Jim who was white, then we would just think of it as a character. Because Hucks character doesnt imply that all whites are just as him, we shouldn't be quick to think that the character of Jim is written in a stereotypical manner.
-The book in general had good and not so good parts to it. Some parts were very good, but also some parts were dragging on and as well done.