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This is an 8 page paper discussing Huckleberry Finn in relation to racism, realism and social Darwinism. When the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was released in 1884, it was originally thought to be considered racist and has over the years been banned from many reading lists in schools. Upon further reflection however, critics believe that although it appears racist, it was actually Mark Twain’s comment on the racism which existed in the society of his day and was one of the first novels to give slaves and African Americans a character which seemingly is written from the black perspective in Jim. Twain’s works, including Huckleberry Finn were seen as more visionary and depicted the early realism style of the time and the increase in the American writers perspective on social Darwinism which existed in society and seemed as the theory oppressors applied in order to justify slavery and child labour in their markets. Through the character of Huck Finn, Twain used the realistic aspects of colloquial language, a middle-American view of modernization and the unreasonableness of the society of the late 1800s.
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"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was released in 1884, it was originally thought to be considered racist and has over the years been banned from many reading lists in schools. Upon
further reflection however, critics believe that although it appears racist, it was actually Mark Twains comment on the racism which existed in the society of his day and was one
of the first novels to give slaves and African Americans a character which seemingly is written from the black perspective in Jim. Twains works, including Huckleberry Finn were seen as
more visionary and depicted the early realism style of the time and the increase in the American writers perspective on social Darwinism which existed in society and seemed as the
theory oppressors applied in order to justify slavery and child labour in their markets. Through the character of Huck Finn, Twain used the realistic aspects of colloquial language, a middle-American
view of modernization and the unreasonableness of the society of the late 1800s. Racism plays a major aspect in the book through societys
treatment of the slave Jim. When the reader first meets Jim (Chapter 2), he is given a very negative description of him and is told that Jim is childlike, illiterate
and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists individuals so it would seem natural to him to
call Jim a "big nigger". In reality as well, Twains description of Jim was probably fairly accurate in the facts that many of the slaves in the South during that
time were not well educated, able to act independently and were often abused. Twains Jim was actually a statement of the reality which existed (Racism Debate). During several instances
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