Huckleberry Finn Racism Essay

Does the color of your skin really define who you are?
Racism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Believe it or not there is still racism living in this world. As Huck goes on this journey he learns to live past the color of someone’s skin without even noticing. Over the years, society has learned to cope with the interracial mix. Huck does not necessarily take on this challenge, but rather a challenge of his own. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain uses a series of episodes to reveal the judgment that one takes just because the color of his skin.
In the beginning of the novel, Huck could care less for a black man or woman. He could honestly care less for anyone but himself. One night as he is going to bed, he “fetched the…show more content…
He starts to devise a plan, so that he could bring his family back together without having to worry about being caught. Explaining to Jim, Huck shot down his idea; “Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat- footed and saying he would steal his children-children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm”(Twain 67). Huck feels as if Jim is doing wrong by wanting to “steal” his children back, some other man bought Jim’s children, so therefore Huck feels as if they are not Jim’s property any longer

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