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Huckleberry Finn Language Analysis

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Huckleberry Finn is a criticism of slavery. He portrays a stereotypical slave that is uneducated, gullible, and is very superstitious. Jim knows more about the world than most slaves and Huck. But as a slave he was never educated, therefore he is not book smart. For example, in chapter 14, Jim thought that Frenchmen speak the same as we do. Huck had tried to explaining to him that cats and cows do not speak the same as us. The cow and the cat do not speak the same, so it is natural and right that they don’t. Huck also asked Jim if it was natural and right that we do not speak the same language as the cat or cow. Jim agreed, but he didn’t understand the concept that if you live in a different country you will probably not speak the same language as the other country. …show more content…

Twain criticized slavery by how uneducated Jim is, but only some people would see that he was actually showing how bad slavery was to the blacks not being racist towards them. Jim is also very gullible, he is very trusting and will believe anything they you tell him. Jim believed the King and the Duke were actually a king and duke. So he would wait on them and do whatever they said. Twain is criticizing that the slaves were gullible because of the way whites treated the slaves. They were not educated, thus they would believe anything they are told. Another way Twain criticized slavery is by Jim’s beliefs. Jim believed in spirits, Voodoo, and many superstitions. In chapter 4, Jim had a hairball that was supposedly from the stomach of an ox, that Jim used to perform magic with. Jim believed that there was a spirit inside of it that would tell someone their fortune. Also in chapter 10, Jim said that holding a snake skin is even worse than looking at the moon over your left shoulder. Jim believes this because a character in the book known as Hank bunker had died after looking at the moon over his left

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