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Essay / Racism in Huck Finn - 1168
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book that presents racial attitudes towards a society. It is written in a more artistic language than usual. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer may be a book aimed at young adults and children, but The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn isn't really aimed at children. Mark Twain shows the evil in his society by satirizing the institution of racism using irony. Mark Twain's best works are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The main characters of the book are Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Tin Sawyer. This book tells the story of Huck Finn's adventures in escaping his drunken father. When Huck gets sucked off by his father, he decides to run away to Jackson's Island, which is in the middle of the Mississippi River. On the island, he ends up finding Jim who is Miss Watson's slave. Jim wants to be a free slave so they both decide to head to the free states. Along the way, Huck and Jim encounter obstacles. They somehow find themselves in a feud with the Grangerfords and the Sheperdsons and encounter two thieves. After facing all these problems, Huck decides to go to the Phelpses who are actually related to Tom Sawyer and were expecting to see Tom. Knowing this, Huck decides to play the role of Tom for a while. At the end of the story, the message appears that Jim was already free. He was free because Miss Watson had died and freed him before her. At the end of the story, Huckleberry decides to go north again without telling anyone. This book addresses the issue of race throughout the story, which is probably the most discussed aspect. The presentation of the books is very complex in many ways. There is no clear stance on race, but the book uses racist language. Racist language in the middle of an article......is frustrating and painful and leaves scars that very few teachers can understand. The problems then add up when black students have to read this story aloud in class. This experience can truly frighten a black student and they will never recover from it. Other students are not asked to endure such embarrassment and humiliation. Even jokes or ironic remarks about their people's history are extremely unwelcome to many black students. “When rights come into conflict, one must sometimes supplant the other. Free speech does not permit, for example, deliberately using words in a way that could cause a heart attack. Likewise, using words in a way that causes psychological and emotional harm is an unacceptable exercise of free speech” (Gilliam 119). She says this because she protects the rights of students.