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Racism has been around for many years, and had a huge impact on the book, Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Julius Lester wrote the essay, “Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and in it he criticizes Twain’s book due to four main reason, but mostly for the book’s use of racism. ... Lester is extremely against racism and slavery that not even a book regarded as high as Huckleberry Finn cannot withhold Lester’s judgement. ... [Huckleberry Finn is] immoral in its major premises, one of which demeans blacks and insults history” (342). ... (Huckleberry Finn, 65)
I believe that this shows that Jim is humble and has integrity, not the opposite. ... “The nigger run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. ... ” (Huckleberry Finn, 42-43). ... “Tom whispered to me [Huck] and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun; but I said no;…Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him…Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance…” (Huckleberry Finn, 5). ...
Lester argued that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, was racist, just as Twain.
Approximate Word count = 1339
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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