Huck defines his own viewpoint and opinion about race apart from what society views race as. Huck knows that Jim is a slave and Huck is raised in a society where the slaves befriended and were helped by no one. Huck turns out befriending Jim on the raft and then sees that! ^0 he! s white! +/- (Twain, 137).
Being white would mean that Jim is normal, just like everyone else in town. He is human, he can has emotions and feelings, he has his thoughts, and he realizes what is inside of a man instead of what he is on the outside. He crosses the border in the end by deciding to steal Jim even though! ^0! -it! s dirt, low-down business! -I! m low down, and I! m a-going to steal him! +/- (Twain, 217).
This shows that even though people think it! s wrong, he is willing to do it because he feels differently. The conversations with Jim as well as Jim! s openness and unashamed dignity triggers Huck to see Jim differently from how others see him because he realizes who Jim really is and develops in character (Brownell).
Society however refuses to recognize such good will in the heart of a black man and often misses the beauty inside. Huck will! ^0 go to hell! +/- and go against society! s beliefs for his own true feelings.
He stands up with his own opinion and perspective and deviates himself from the norm in positive attitude about those of different race. How people see race and a slave often lead to what people act upon the slaves in accusations and abuse. People often put blame and many generalizations upon the slaves and set them apart thinking they are much different people from everyone else. In one crime incident, ! ^0 some think old Finn done it himself! -But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway [slave] named Jim! +/- (Twain, 88).
The Term Paper on Huckleberry Finn Jim Huck Twain
"He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave." [Lat. , Fit in dominate ser vitus, in servitude dominates. ] Oratio Pro Reg Deiotaro (XI) by Marcus Tullius Cicero Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered to be possibly the Great American Novel by many scholars and is certainly the best known of Mark Twain's works. These scholars both ...
This shows how even though the suspicion points to a white male, Huck, society points to a black man instead and blame him for no cognitive reason. People look down upon the slaves as they received abuse over and over again inhumanely, but Huck slowly shows more consideration. ! ^0[Huck] made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up, people could tell he was a [slave] a good ways off! ^0 (Twain, 79).
The statement by Huck resembles that people actually look far off and even care if there was a black man on the raft. In modern society, nobody bothers if there is a black man laying or sitting on a boat or not, yet Huck! s surrounding society seems to care. In Brownell! s literary criticism, ! ^0 The Role of Jim in Huckleberry Finn! +/-, he says! ^0 Jim which, above all others, shows his concern about! (R) hurting others! in its full meaning, as a deep and affectionate respect for human dignity.
! +/- This is one incident where Jim! s personality trait shines above that of common society! s because he cares and is considerate whereas his! (R) white folks! are inconsiderate and cruel. This cruelty describes just how people se blacks and whites so differently yet Huck becomes a person who sees Jim in the inside rather than the outside and says, ! ^0 He was a mighty good [slave], Jim was! +/- (Twain, 55).
Twain! s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, characterizes and uses point-of-view to show the difference in perception from different angles in society. Racism is a big issue including stereotyping and ethnocentricity and Twain speaks through the book very clearly that racism and slavery is simply wrong.
