Racism And Slavery In Huck Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is often considered the greatest American novel ever written. In writing Huck Finn Twain explores many different themes. Among the themes he chooses to expand on are the Mississippi River, the intellectual versus moral education of Huck, the hypocrisy of civilized society, childhood, lies and cons, superstitions, the value of money, religion, and racism and slavery. This paper will explore the theme of racism and slavery. Racism and slavery is shown throughout the novel by being expressed through different characters opinions, and the moral of what is right and wrong in Huck’s time era. In this novel Huck has to make the hardest decision of his life based on the theme of racism and slavery. For an example, of racism and slavery is when Huck is running to the raft after escaping from the King and Duke. He
He rambles on in a sarcastic tone of ways the government is messed up and ruining his life. In his list of things he says, “But when they told me there was a state in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote again.” (27) What Pap means is he can’t believe that someone (in his opinion) who should be picking corn in a cornfield is voting for a president in his country. Now imagine you are eating at the front of the restaurant. All of a sudden a person walks in and goes to the front desk saying they would like to apply for a job. The manager comes out and takes a look at their resume and saids it looks great. They say they will hire them on the condition if there not a homosexual. The person looks comfortable and says they are. The manger hands back the resume and says they’ll have to pass on the offer and walks away. Just like the Manger, Pap couldn’t accept change and viewed it in racist way to the point where it affect his life and moral