Mark Twain, exposes the evil in his society and he mainly tells truth about society and he says,“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter... there was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth”(Twain, p.9). The Twain is kind of muckraker who exposes society’s problems by writing a book and he speaks about racist culture. In the other hand, Huck characters saw more superior than Jim character, however sometimes Huck treats Jim nicely and he begins to show sympathy toward Jim. In addition, before pre-civil war slavery was legal and other people refuse to apologize to black people because of their skin color but in the book, Huck did an impressive job
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The Huck is showing sympathy toward Jim. However Huck is easily influenced by the society, Tom is Huck mischievous friend who has influence over Huck.When Huck realizes his trick was a mean one, he says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way”(Twain, p.92). The Huck is continually struggling with choosing wrong or right thing, but in this case, he did the right thing to apologize to Jim because he did mean trick to Jim. The Jim is a runaway slave who is uneducated so it is for Huck to tricks Jim and this time he did mean tricks to Jim and this shows Twain learn from society and he decided to be nice to Jim. Than he ends up with apologizing to Jim and this shows it is very impressive for Huck because be pre-civil white people are refusing to apologize to black people. This shows Twain doesn’t think black people are inferior if he thinks black people are inferior than Huck would never ask for forgiveness. However, some parts of the novel, Twain shows black people can do better than white. When Tom and Huck finds out that the king and the duke are in town to perform and that Jim has warned the townspeople that the upcoming show is a fraud and Huck tried to save them, but he fails and he says, “Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them anymore in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another”(Twain, p.232). This conveys that Jim is able to save townspeople from the King and Duke. The Huck is trying to save the King and Duke even though they deserve punishment and they did terrible things to him and other people. The Huck has
The Huck is showing sympathy toward Jim. However Huck is easily influenced by the society, Tom is Huck mischievous friend who has influence over Huck.When Huck realizes his trick was a mean one, he says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way”(Twain, p.92). The Huck is continually struggling with choosing wrong or right thing, but in this case, he did the right thing to apologize to Jim because he did mean trick to Jim. The Jim is a runaway slave who is uneducated so it is for Huck to tricks Jim and this time he did mean tricks to Jim and this shows Twain learn from society and he decided to be nice to Jim. Than he ends up with apologizing to Jim and this shows it is very impressive for Huck because be pre-civil white people are refusing to apologize to black people. This shows Twain doesn’t think black people are inferior if he thinks black people are inferior than Huck would never ask for forgiveness. However, some parts of the novel, Twain shows black people can do better than white. When Tom and Huck finds out that the king and the duke are in town to perform and that Jim has warned the townspeople that the upcoming show is a fraud and Huck tried to save them, but he fails and he says, “Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn’t ever feel any hardness against them anymore in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another”(Twain, p.232). This conveys that Jim is able to save townspeople from the King and Duke. The Huck is trying to save the King and Duke even though they deserve punishment and they did terrible things to him and other people. The Huck has