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Examples Of Racism In Huckleberry Finn

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The society and the people within are cruel. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Huckleberry is the main character that learns about the society when he tries to get a slave to freedom. Huckleberry's opinion of society and the people within can be best described by racist, unfair and judgmental. Huckleberry Finn believes that the people within the society are racist. “It was ‘lection day, just about to go and vote myself if I warn't too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a state in this country where they'd let a nigger vote, I drawed out”(p.27). This is an example of racism. Another example is when Huckleberry was pretending to be tom Sawyer. “ “It warnt the grounding- that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head.”
“Good gracious! Anybody hurt?”
“No’m. Killed a nigger.”
“well , it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt”(p.p.220-221). When Aunt Polly points out that its good nobody got hurt, but yet a nigger died. …show more content…

“ “Jim ain't got no plates. They feed him in a pan”(p.241). Jim was being treated unfairly by being given a pan instead of a plate.
“ when we was three-quarters of a mile below we hoisted up our signal lantern; and about ten o’clock it come on to rain and blow and thunder and lightening like everything; so the king told us to both stay on watch the weather got better; then him and the duke crawled into the wigwam and turned in for the night”(p.127). While the king and the duke rest Jim and Huckleberry are told to stay up by the king and the duke rudely showing that some people are treated fairly while others are not.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn people are judgmental. Everyone at one point is judgmental at one point during the book. “"But mind, you said you wouldn' tell—you know you said you wouldn' tell,

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