Huck risks being caught traveling with a runaway slave and the consequences are that river travel was very dangerous. Another stage is when Jim has been captured by the Phelps' in chapter 31. Huck decides to go and free Jim. Back then freeing a slave was considered a horrible crime, but Huck didn't care and decided to take any punishment or humiliation as long as his friend could be free. 4.
Jim v Jim: Huck's True Father Huckleberry(Huck) Finn is the protagonist in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Throughout his adventures Huck develops a great deal by the influence of those around him. His "Pap" Jim Finn and Jim the slave each leave profound, contrasting impressions on a young Huck Finn. Pap had provided Huck with few lessons, mainly material, and was not an ideal father by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand Jim the slave truly cared for Huck and had helped him look deep inside himself and caused an internal battle between Huck's conscious and heart.
Huck is an uneducated boy on the run from his abusive father, constantly under pressure to conform to the "civilized" surroundings of society. Jim is a slave and is not considered a person, but property. He is trying to escape to the North where he will purchase his family's freedom when Huck stumbles upon him on Jackson Island and decides to help him. In doing so, twain is setting the stage for Huck and Jim to be the heroes of the novel. Huck at first is very racist, just like the rest of society.
Slave holders intended to keep their slaves illiterate and stupefied in order to keep them obedient. Ignorance was a solution that ensured to keep slaves from escaping. Soon, Douglass found himself in the hands of new masters. Douglass departed to his new masters by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Auld, and he was appalled with the fact that his mistress was kindly teaching him to read and write. However, when the master found out of his wife's doings he explained that "it would forever unfit him to be a slave" because learning would make him "unmanageable, and of no value to his master" (Douglass 34).
Huck even lies to the men that it was his family with smallpox so he wouldn’t be caught. The most brave thing Huck does in regards to Jim, is not turning Jim in as he debates with himself whether or not to. Huck has the courage to think against the norm of society, and how slaves are unequal to the white man, and sees Jim as not only another person, but a friend, not just a black slave. “hadn’t had a bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage and greens—there ain’t nothing in the world so good when it’s cooked right—and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time. .
I can now visualize Douglass perspectives as he is recognized as an individual trying to gain knowledge without being whipped and harshly treated. Douglass subject of this novel is portrayed as “education” to let readers know what is most important when trying to succeed. His work is portrayed as an excellent novel as he strives the importance of freedom to his readers. In the final chapters of this book, Douglass escapes slavery for good. The only thing I didn’t like about the book was that Douglass never went into detail about his escape.
In order to retain the essence of the book, it is imperative that the original story written by Mark Twain is taught in schools, and is not changed. The book is often times seen as racist, due to how African American characters are treated in the book. You still have to keep in mind, that the reason Mark Twain exaggerated these events is because he was writing in the perspective of a teenage boy named Huck Finn, who was helping Jim, a runaway slave reunite with his family, while overcoming internal conflict along the way.. Huck himself didn’t refer Jim and any other black man as “niggers” as often as other characters. Most of the demeaning language came from other characters. When he met Tom’s Aunt Sally, he pretended to be Tom and explained he was late because "We blowed out a cylinder-head."
Huck is a rebel in many ways, yet he still seems to conform to the societal standards that African Americans are slaves and property of the people who own them. He starts to question whether it is the right thing to be helping Jim. If Jim is property, then Huck is technically stealing and he is stealing from someone who has helped him. Huck morality is focused on and the reader wonders right along with Huck. Perhaps Twain wanted readers to see the thought process of an innocent child and this child's view on slavery.
Huck realizes that racism and slavery are very immoral and this encourages him to keep helping Jim to freedom. The racism in Huck’s society affect his perception of right and wrong because most of the people who had an influence on him thought that slavery was a good thing and were, in general, racist people. He couldn’t make his mind up between what was right or wrong because he had to choose either; what society thought was right, slavery, lynching or what his heart thought was right, helping his friend Jim. When Jim was sold from the Duke and the King Huck becomes scared and begins to write a letter to a previous caretaker, Miss Watson, then he had “to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and [he] knowed it. [He] studied a minute, sort of holding [his] breath, and then says to [himself]:"All right, then, I'll go to hell"- and tore it up.”(Twain 214) He
Frederick Douglass: Freedom Fighter In Frederick Douglass’s narrative he addresses the many things that led him to his freedom from slavery. Learning to read and write were two of these important tools. But neither of these were as necessary to his becoming free as the defiance Douglas gained from a fight he had with his master at the time, Mr. Covey, was. Although learning to read was very important for Fredrick Douglass’s path to freedom, his battle with Mr.