Huckleberry Finn Character Development

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The novel Huck Finn shows that racism is something that is learned, not a mindset that one is born with. This is true because people freak out and say black lives matter even though all lives matter when an officer followed his training and shot a black person. In the novel this will be proved through the character development, plot development, and dialogue. In the novel Huck Finn we see that Huck’s character development shows that he cares about Jim and that Jim has a family and that Huck spares him on Jackson’s Island and later on frees him from the Phelps when he's already free. In the novel Huck knows Jim has a family away up yonder and has feelings that Jim might not be able to see them again. “He was often moaning and mourning that way nights, when he judged I was asleep, and saying, ‘Po’ little ‘Lizabeth! po’ little Johnny! it’s might hard; I spec’ I …show more content…

In this text it shows that Huck knows about the family he won’t ever be able to see again. This also displays the fact that Jim loves his family as much as a white person would. Huck cares about Jim and the fact that he might not ever get to see his family again which shows he’s not racist towards Jim. In Huck Finn the character developes into being lazy and not caring for an education and being civilized once he spends time in the log cabin with Pap. In Huck Finn it says that he likes to be laying around jolly and confortable and talks about the life that he has now compared to what that life has deveoped to be with Pap. “It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didnt see how I’d ever got to like it so well at the widow’s, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate, and

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