Discrimination In Huckleberry Finn Essay

Discrimination has always been an on-going issue since the 19th century and even before that time. Society has always put blacks in a category that whites would have never been put in until the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment downed the problems of discrimination. Still today there are several issues between whites and blacks, as far as individual opinions go. However, as society and the government tends to build and grow, discrimination is not a big topic society addresses as much. In todays society everyone can vote, and be equal as in the the 19th century that was different, even in “Huckleberry Finn.” In the book on page 26 Huck and Jim talked about voting and how the government worked then. Jim stated, “They call that a government! A man can’t get his right in a government like this.” There was a free nigger in the state of Ohio, because he had not been in the United States for over 6 months, so he was aloud to vote. However, Jim said, “ I will never vote in this state.” All blacks at this time were not aware that they could have a right to vote, but Jim wanted to vote and not think it was right the government, and the whites to take that away from him.
However, each black person in the 19th century many couldn’t read or write, although they were very smart intelligent people. In the book on page 76 Huck states, “Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head, for a nigger.” If you were a slave you were treated unfairly and talked to like you had zero sense. Most of the time you didn’t understand a lot of things, but only because you were a slave and your master would not teach you how to read or write. In the society today people don’t look at blacks as they did in this book or as if they have no sense. Society looks at them as a person who can do the same things white people can