The Racial Debate of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Es

The Racial Debate of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, throughout the years, has provoked many another(prenominal) debates pertaining to racialism. A variety of individuals believe that Mark Twain express apparently racial ideas. The reason being, this figment shows the relationships between blacks and whites in the nineteenth century and all the ugliness that accompanied these associations. However, this novel is not a racist novel it shows these situations not to promote racism, but to bring a better understanding of the subject and how one can overcome individual prejudices and grow from these experiences. This novel shows Huck Finn, a product of this insufferable society, coming to the realization of how uncivilized and ignorant his white peers have become. By showing these situations and the transformations Huck goes through, the reader sees racism and its effects in real life settings. It is imperative for the reader to rec ognize the ideas and repulsiveness of the South at that time in history and Twain with his write of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn attempts to challenge these ideas throughout the novel. Twain shows the irony and hypocrisy of treating people as property through Hucks eyes, and uses Huck to educate us in the immorality of this practice. For many of Twains critics, this novel is racism with a face on it and for the most obvious reason the word nigger is used throughout. But seeing the novel takes mooring in the Deep South about twenty years before the Civil War, it would be highly unusual if they didnt use this word. James M. Cox wrote, The speech communication is neither imprisoned in a frame nor distorted into a caricature rather, it becom... ...laude M Simpson. Englewood Cliffs,N.J. 1968. Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Phd. Teaching Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1995, July Summer Teachers Institute, Hartford, Connecticut 1995 http//www.pbs.org/wgbn/cult ureshorck/teachers/huck/essay.html Leavis, F.R. inlet to Puddnhead Wilson. (London Chatto and Windus, Ltd., 1955) Rpt. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ed. Claude M Simpson. Englewood Cliffs,N.J. 1968. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Berkeley University of California Press, 2001. Zwick, Jim. Civil Rights or Book Banning? Three New Approaches to Huckleberry Finn http//www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/essays/civil_rights9809.html Hentoff, Nat. Expelling Huck Finn. Jewish World refreshen 29 Nov. 1999. www.Jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff/12999.asp