The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Racism

The twentieth century has come to an amazing finale. Racism, ethnic prejudice and hate are on the decline. Perhaps some of these changes can be attributed to the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which Mark Twain addresses the issues of racism and slavery. He writes in a humorous, almost childish way, yet the themes are clear and poignant. Twain utilizes Huck Finn and Jim as the ideal characters because they are the ones …

…his simple novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain establishes the ideals of society through his main characters and shows what happens when these ideals fail. If Huck Finn can learn to see past the racism and hate of his day and love a black man then perhaps our society can learn from this and move forward not as whites, blacks, Hispanics, niggers, waps, micks or wetbacks but as human beings sharing this precious world.