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A 4 page essay that compares and contrasts the issue of racism in Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Kate Chopin's The Awakenings. An examination of these works reveals how each author addressed issues of race within the context of Southern society and, in both cases, how this issue impacted the lives of their protagonists. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the Southern culture, a culture that remained stable in regards to its mores and expectations despite the intervention of a bloody civil war. An examination of these works reveals
how each author addressed issues of race within the context of Southern society and, in both cases, how this issue impacted the lives of their protagonists. Twain, whose real
name was Samuel Clemmons, grew up in the town of Hannibal, Missouri. Critic Forrest Robinson comments that Twain was highly cognizant of the "unthinking hypocrisy of people who daily violated
the moral norms to which they paid lip service while pretending they were doing nothing of the sort" (Barrish 65). What Robinson refers to is the fact that supposedly Christian
Southerners relied on the institution of slavery to support their economy. In Huck Finn, Twain dramatized the incongruity of a system that valued people according to their skin color,
rather than their character. Hucks father is a lower class white, a man who abuses his own child. However, he is above blacks on the social ladder of the South
simply because of his skin color. In contrast, the escaped slave Jim, with whom Huck travels down the Mississippi, is a caring, noble man, and becomes a surrogate father
for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century language. To put it bluntly, during the era in
which the novel was set, black Americans were not referred to by whites other then with the epithet "nigger." However, because Twain used language that realistically portrays the way
that white people actually talked in the South prior to the Civil Rights era, he has been accused of racism. This is ironic since nothing could be further from
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