Huckleberry Finn's Changing Views

Etem Selmani
Mrs. Brooky
English 3
3/2/15
Changing Views
Everyone reading this knows that we experience situations that make us uncomfortable in our lives, that there is no way of avoiding it. We all would rather have somebody else lead and be at the top of the pulpit. We all would rather follow than lead, because in that way we won’t have to think for ourselves, and all the hard decisions will be determined by someone else. In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck Finn goes on an arduous, and perilous journey with a slave, named Jim, so that they both gain their freedom. But, the book has received a lot of criticism for the ending of the book that Mr. mark Twain wrote. The critics of this historically significant

Yes, stunned. Not, by any means, by the artistry of the book but by the notion that this is the novel all American literature grows out of, that this is a great novel, that this is even a serious novel.” She proves to be skilled in criticism, however she has missed a very important fact about this book, that she really hasn’t looked deep enough. It is the fact that she hasn’t looked through this book in a psychological perspective/point of view, to fully understand this book you must look it through that specific psychological lense.to understand the big picture including the characters of the story. She took from the story only that Huckleberry Finn’s persona was becoming unraveled and unfilled in sight, as one of the main characters, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn’s friend fell back into the scene near the end of the novel, and Huckleberry Finn’s disposition changing, with discrimination and racialism, and along with Mr. Samuel Clemens. However Mr. Clemens was not expressing his beliefs and opinion into this novel, but creating a realistic account of what the perspective would have looked like through a white Southern boy and African American slave during the Antebellum

There is an American Proverb that explains this, “Money talks and Bull poop walks.” However this notion of not following what your heart says, is a big issue when it comes to the end of this novel. The critics who criticize the ending of this book, believe it to be due to Huckleberry Finn’s relationship between Jim and him. Jane Smiley states, “If Huck feels positive toward Jim, and loves him, and thinks of him as a man, then that’s enough. He doesn’t actually have to act in accordance with his feelings. White Americans always think racism is a feeling, and they reject it or they embrace it. To most Americans, it seems more honorable and nicer to reject it, so they do, but they most invariably fail to understand that how they feel means very little to black Americans , who understand racism as a way of structuring American culture, American politics, and the American economy.” Here it says that Huckleberry Finn’s relationship with Jim, the African slave is not enough for anyone who is constantly under the spell of racism. Jane is trying to say that Huckleberry Finn inactions defeat the purpose of the novel, because Smiley interprets it as racist, however this is completely false. Huckleberry Finn onced lived with a slave owner, that went by the name of Miss Watson, who in fact owned the slave Jim. He was constantly around slavery and as a result