Slavery In Huckleberry Finn

Slavery and racism used to be taught as correct and right in America. Kids were told that they were superior to someone based on their skin color. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain paints an amazing picture of a boy, Huckleberry Finn, struggling with the morality behind African Americans being treated differently. He has never thought of it this way until he becomes good friends with Jim, a black man. Huck Finn is willing to lie for Jim so he won’t get caught, showing Huck’s loyalty, guilt, and struggle with a mental war. When Huck is confronted by two men, he has to lie about Jim’s skin color so Jim will not get caught, showing Huck’s loyalty toward him. The men tell Huck that 5 slaves have run away and go on to ask if Jim is white or black. Huck “didn’t answer up promptly,” he tried to, “but the words wouldn’t come.” (93). Huck wants to do the “right” thing and tell the men, but he can’t break his loyalty with Jim. He has already helped him all this way, and he is not about to go back now. Unluckily, the men decide to go see for themselves anyway. Huck has
At first, he thinks he did the wrong thing: “I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong…” (94). Then, he realizes he would not feel any better had he given Jim to the men: “Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on, s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad…” (94). Huck has an eye opening moment, because he realizes that he cares about Jim as a person. He sees a black man, not only as a whole human being, but also as his friend. Now, he is questioning right and wrong because of this. He thinks to himself, “…what’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just same?” (94). Huck does not know how to answer that. His morals are being