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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the racial and societal impacts for Jim and Neg in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Kate Chopin's Neg Creole. No additional sources cited.
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The differences in their perspectives on racial issues are supported by their personal histories, the societal constructs within which they wrote, and their own personal ideologies. It is clear
that Chopin has a greater concept of the impacts of racial issues due to her personal history of life in New Orleans. Twain, on the other hand, could offer
a sympathetic perspective and represented a liberal viewpoint on slavery, but he was not imbedded in a culture that could broaden his racial considerations. Both authors attempt to
provide very grounded and rich stories, created out of a storytelling tradition that was a part of southern culture. Twain creates a long narrative story, demonstrating his ability to
mingle a number of important relationships and subplots into his lengthy work. Chopin, on the other hand, creates a work that truly reflects her skills as a storyteller, and
she use dialectic considerations in support of the oral tradition. While Twains work is developed around a number of plot sequences and focus on the relationships between a number
of primary characters, Chopin provides a slice of life depiction of the relationships in her work, a shorter version that attempts to promote its racial themes in a brief structure.
Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck and Jim
in Twains novel demonstrates the complexity of racial inequalities in the plantation south. Jims need to escape and Hucks choice to help him presents an immediate and distinguishable inequality
in their relationship. At the same time, Twain attempts to demonstrate that their relationship, on at least one level, surpasses the racial divisions that are created by their society.
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