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Essay / Huckleberry Finn Free Essays: Race Relations - 1478
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Race RelationsHumans are fascinated by real-life situations, coupled with a fictional story. Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, perfectly describes real situations in a fictional story. Twain dramatized the real events of slavery into an entertaining, fictional story. The novel mainly deals with racial relations between each human. Social classes, loyalty/friendship, and rebellion show how the novel evolves into a main theme of race relations. Throughout world history, people have been placed into categories based on their wealth and all the material possessions we own. . These classes of society can really make people speak and act differently towards certain people. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the novel shows these lessons very well. At the beginning of the novel, we see a little of the black class and how they were treated. "Miss. Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was sitting at the kitchen door, we could see him pretty clearly" (14). Jim, Miss Watson's runaway slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the subordination of black people in America, because they were not allowed into the home, because they were uneducated and had to work in the fields. Another example of the classes in. What we put on each other is when Huck, the main character, and Jim were heading south. Jim and Huck are sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River, and Jim says, "I own myself and I." 've got eight hundred dollars” (54) This shows the reader that blacks are so low that whites put a price on blacks, no matter how poorly educated blacks are, they believe they are worth so much money. that this is all they hear from their owners By doing such a thing to another human being it degrades our country and black citizens themselves. In the end, we see how these classes can affect a person, due to their social status. Like before, people say things to others to make themselves feel better, and they don't care what it does to the person they are talking about, because of their class in society. An example of this is when “They swore at Jim a lot and punched him once or twice on the head.” (271).