Free Huckleberry Finn Essays: Challenge to Slavery :: Adventures Huckleberry Huck Finn Essays

Challenge to Sla genuinely    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn   In recent years, there has been increasing countersign of the seemingly racist ideas expressed by Mark couplet in Huckleberry Finn. In some extreme cases the novel has even been banned by public school systems and censored by public libraries. The basis for these censoring campaigns has been the depiction of one of the main characters in Huckleberry Finn, Jim, a black slave. Jim, is a typical black slave who runs away from his owner, Miss Watson.  At several(prenominal) points in the novel, Jims character is described to the reader, and some people have looked upon the moving picture as racist. However, before one begins to censor a novel it is crucial to separate the ideas of the author from the ideas of his characters. It is also important not to take a novel at face value and to read between the lines in order to capture the underlying themes of a novel. If one were to do this in relation to Huckleberry Finn, one would, without doubt, realize that it is not racist and is even anti-slavery. with society, Hucks father and Huck, Mark Twain reveals a argufy to slavery. On a superficial level Huckleberry Finn might appear to be racist. The first time the reader meets Jim he is given a very negative description of Jim. The reader is told that Jim is illiterate, childlike, not very bright and exceedingly superstitious. However, it is important not to lose sight of who is giving this description and of whom it is creation given. Although Huck is not a racist child, he has been raised by extremely racist individuals who have, even if only subconsciously, ingrained some feelings of credulity into his mind. It is also important to remember that this description, although it is quite saddening, was probably accurate. Jim and the millions of other slaves in the South were not permitted any formal education, were never allowed any case-by-case thought and were constantly mis treated and abused. Twain is merely portraying by way of Jim, a very realistic slave raised in the South during that time period. To say that Twain is racist because of his desire for diachronic accuracy is absurd. Despite the few incidences in which Jims description might be misconstrued as racist, there are many points in the novel where Twain through Huck, voices his extreme opposition to the slave trade and racism.