Huckleberry Finn: Modern Society Compared To The 1840s

What is the first thing that comes to mind when speaking about modern society compared to the 1840s? The main reason the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written is to show how much racism there was in the 1840’s. I feel that society has changed for the better since 1840 because the racism that is used I will show you three different types that they use in this book and in this time still exist but it’s better than what it used to be. Mark Twain the author grew up in Missouri, which was a slave state during his childhood. He later incorporates his formative experiences of the institution of slavery into his writings. Huck the protagonist and narrator of the novel. Huck is a thirteen-year-old boy, his father is a drunk from St.

I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.” (chapter 15, page 86) Huck isn't very happy about having to apologize to a Jim a black man, but yet he still does it and he doesn't regret saying he was sorry after he seen how upset jim got. I think that Mark Twain shows us how Huck starts to respect Jim even though he is a black man Huck does not care, Huck looked past the skin color that Jim has and just sees him for who he is not for the color of his skin. Does Mark Twain put this in the story to show how bad racism was back in the 1840’s or does he show us this to see that there are some people that look past color and in that people are going to start evolving to see people for who they are and not the color of their skin? To some people, they would say that racism now has gotten worse since 1840 but society has changed a lot and became more diverse. Today we still have that problem some people will not talk to black people or acknowledge that they are there but we have gotten better since

He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before. Just see what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free. It was according to the old saying, "Give a nigger an inch and he'll take an ell." Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm” In this passage he is showing that Huck still has to learn that Huck is only saying what he knows and wheat he has learned from how he has grown up. “Hyesha Bryant, 34, brought her three kids -- her infant, 7-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son -- to the 2015 party, along with a 15-year-old cousin. She remembers seeing the trucks pass as the kids were enjoying the bounce house and adults were playing cards. The Confederate battle flags mounted to the backs of the trucks didn't faze her. She grew up in Douglasville, long before it was it was 45% black like Alford -- who was raised in Luverne, Alabama -- she considers the flag an unremarkable part of life in the South Torres' shotgun is what startled her. That, and someone saying, "We're going to kill some f'ing Ns today," she recalled, censoring the racial slur. She was further horrified when she urged the adults to get the children into the house and one of the party crashers said, "Nah, leave