Topic > Racism in Huck Finn: The Life of Huckleberry Finn

could one day rebel against himself, start a social movement and gain his freedom? If one day this were to happen like the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, then perhaps it would be time to give the slave his well-deserved freedom? This simple yet complex proposal would surely have infuriated the author's brethren. The author's notion of self and the good-naturedness of others went ballistically forward by suggesting that a black slave Jim could take care of a young white boy Huck. Jim takes on the role of friend and father figure to Huck as he cooks for him in the wild jungles they set foot in. If the boogeyman was depicted so humanely and intellectually in both novels, why not in real life? Another interesting point is that the author deliberately portrayed Huck as a white guy in low light? Huck is white but lives in extreme poverty. He has no inclination to learn and strive for the American dream that his countrymen emphasize as a measure of success. Indeed, we see the characters' 'ferocity' in the way he sleeps and eats at strange times and in the unhygienic conditions in which he so proudly presents himself to the reader. Wasn't this wild lifestyle attributed to and limited to Eastern blacks? Shouldn't white have been textured and black the exact opposite? The reader who read this description of Huckleberry Finn when the two novels were published must have been astonished at how a white author could vilify a white character in this way. Was Huck Black? The demonization and demoralization of the East was a structured method of invoking terror in the mind and heart of another. But skeptics say that the remote possibility that the other does not fear himself is almost impossible. The disa...... middle of paper...... then the ambiguity was not veiled at all. If the white man professed himself to be of superior stature to the black man, wasn't it this excessive vice that put the self with the other in the face of 'ferocity'? Whether he liked it or not, he knew that he was, if not more, but equal to the ferocity conceived by the other. He knew he was on par with the white man's perceived level of vice as the badness of being dark in color in a white man's world. Ultimately we come to the dry conclusion that both self and other were consistent about each other's actions and motivations. However, the criminals ultimately had to be characters like Jim the slave because that was the solution to all problems. The right mix of ingredients was to represent the colored as 'dirty animals', creating an image that put the other in a negative light