Racism In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The media can also play a great role in influencing racism. It is a commonplace for anyone to join to understand other races and for others to explain and clarify things that could have been misinterpreted. “Social media provides a laboratory of how discourse on race play out with very little moderation.” With social media it becomes difficult to fall out of the loop of current trends and spreading different cultures. Racism can be portrayed as positive or negative but often ends up being negative. Social media video is one of the fastest ways to address issues of race. A hateful, racist video could be filmed, uploaded, viewed, and responded to and create a virtual debate of sort instantly. The convenience of the internet help people spread their thoughts around the

world almost instantly but the downfall is that once it is there it cannot be taken back so the racial video or comment will forever be in existence and be accessed (Nakagawa and Arzubiaga).
Literature throughout the years is one of the greatest reminders of American history. There are novels many of them classics such as How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, who depict life during the time where blacks were not accepted into society and were barely even seen as human counterparts by the whites. Novels such as Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn are classics that are taught by many nationwide in high school so many students become familiar with the hardships of the time and are shown the racist ideas of the time. In Harper Lee’s How to Kill a Mockingbird the protagonist Scout is a child who is not fully aware racism but Lee takes her readers through a journey of growing up with Scout who slowly learns right or wrong and the different social issues that existed during that time period. As Scout grows up she realizes that the white people cannot go against their racist ideas and stereotypes they have been taught to follow since they themselves were children. The town the novel takes place in, Maycomb contains much prejudice, discrimination, and injustice giving readers a taste of the time period and ideas to consider that are racist (Lee).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is another classic novel well known for its theme of racism and the huge controversy that revolves around the novel.

The N-word has become a grand controversy because the word is repeated over 200 times and often offends readers. The use of the word especially by a young child shows how it was part of everyday vocabulary during the time period but shows readers how much African Americans were degraded then. Racism has become almost second nature to many white Americans that they are able to use the n-word casually in daily language. Racism is still an unconscious thought for many today and readers are able to see throughout the novel, it is very difficult to fix the unconscious habit. It is evident that the whites had a deep hatred for the blacks which resulted in a scene where the whites were extremely gullible because they are always willing to believe that a fault was committed by a slave and do not consider the fact that a white person could have easily been the one at fault. In the scene everyone believed the con artists that the slaves were the ones who stole the money made it a lot easier for the cons to escape with the family fortune

(Twain).
No matter how much society tries to remove the idea of racism, it will never be able to go into extinction. Human kind has already been programmed to determine differences and mentally categorize them into different groups, especially those that differ from oneself. History has had too much of an impact on today’s society for anyone to be able to forget how racism came to be and has continued to exist in daily life. There will always be the minorities that still believe the nation should still be segregated and there will always be those people who look down on African Americans simply because they have a different skin color. Unfortunately, more shootings are inevitable and events such as those will remind Americans about the past and about the racist beliefs people unfortunately still have. Even classic novels written during the time of great segregation are a reminder to people that the past was a darker time and America today is lucky to be filled with people who are much more open-minded. In the end, the Civil Rights Movement was a monumental period of time in American history and the country can comfortably live in peace and unison but America has almost been marked with one too many reminders from the past to truly be able to accept one another completely, thus racism will continue to carry itself into the future of America.