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This 3 page paper considers two quotes from Huckleberry Finn, considers why and how they are racists, and how it demonstrates a racist attitude in the book. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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more deeply into his writing they may find more than American ideas and a comforting view of history. At the time to book Huckleberry Finn was written the environment was
very different, slavery was accepted and there was a strong racist element to the societal structure and this can be seen in his work. In a quote for Huckleberry Finn
this racism can be seen to shine through; "Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldnt hardly notice the other niggers. Niggers would come miles to
hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that country. Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look him all
over, same as if he was a wonder. Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire" (Twain 8). There is also racism shown later in
the book, "That night they had a big supper, and all them men and women was there, and I stood behind the king and the dukes chairs and waited on
them, and the niggers waited on the rest" (Twain 228). The immediately apparent theme in both of these quotes are the way in which the term nigger is used. Today
this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in Hannibal, Missouri; a slave holding community and although this book was
written later, when there were changes an unrest with regard the separation of the races (Trilling 22). The terms may be seen as wrong, both then and now. In using
any terms that is negative in connotation the student may argue that there is an insult being given. This separates out people due only to their race, and identifies them,
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