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A 4 page essay that compares the themes in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. No additional sources are cited.
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below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates.?? Comparing Twain and Faulkner Research Compiled By
- May, 2010 properly! Race relations are a central issue in both Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the legacy of slavery significantly shaped
the lives of white Southerners to an extensive and detrimental degree. In both novels, the authors underscore this point by portraying an African American as the most selfless, giving and
noble character in each novel. Set in the antebellum South, Huck is a young boy who has been raised to believe all the rationalizations that white Southerners concocted to
defend the concept of slavery. Huck has been carefully taught that his friend Jim, the escaped slave with whom he travels on a raft on the river, is not a
human being, but "property" and that by aiding Jim in escaping his owner, Miss Watson, he is actually "stealing" from Miss Watson, a woman that Huck likes. Huck is, therefore,
plagued by a guilty conscience for aiding Jim and writes a letter to Miss Watson, telling her where Jim is and how she can retrieve her property. His first reaction
after doing this was to feel "good and all washed clean of sin" (Twain 284). However, after his initial reaction, Huck begins to think of the many occasions in which
Jim helped him, looked after him, worried about him, and, essentially treated with the sort of kindness and love that his own father never showed toward Huck. Considering this, Huck
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