Friday, October 15, 2010

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Whenever discussing Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we have to deal with the issue of racism. Mark Twain was not a racist. He used the word nigger so much in order to put a mirror up to the white people of America at the time. Twain used Jim to show that only embracing the slave as a full human being can humanize the slave master.

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