Huck+Finn+novel+is+not+racist

So it comes to this...

Debaters, this page has been set aside for you to store resources and discuss your plan of action for Friday's Fight Night... ummm... debate in class. Remember, this page may only be used by those individuals defending //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// as a non-racist novel.
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· MT doesn’t take slavery seriously
 * Racist

· Jim described Childlike

· Narrative nothing more white fantasy-escaping responsibility

· Use of N Word & racial stereotypes/ demeaning traits

· Huck forgets about Jim while at Grangerfords (chap 17 & 18)

· Huck goes along with Tom’s “adventure” plans at Phelps’s

The conversation between Aunt Sally and Huck about the Boat || Not Racist · MT father- owned slave Uncle owned several (biography of MT) * He later disliked how blacks were treated and was digusted toward lynchings · Huck only 14-15 Jim same age or younger -Jim portrayed “caring, loving” father-like figure in book · Twain-exposing ignorance/paradoxical views many & religious families in 1830’s - Jim is described childlike due to his lack of education, not discrimination. · Illustrating dialect of south &how those who believed in slavery spoke -mocking southern values during civil war era : ex “Huck doestn tell Jim’s whereabouts”- decision “go to Hell” · Magic Hairball -both blacks & whites visit Jim-found among all races =lack of education

· MT made it hard to find anything wrong with Jim throughout the story
It was the time period. MT was writing a realistic novel therefore he had to use the dialect that would have been used during that time period or it would have been unrealistic. - This novel is not racist because it is written in true local color. - The use of the N word is not offensive except for possible two uses, which were not by major characters. - Huck is bonding with Jim the whole time down the river, and its a positive bond not a confrontation - Jim is a father figure to Huck, although they come from different races Jim raises Huck in a sense and cares for him - Huck makes the morally correct decision to not tell Miss Watson where Jim is and also to help Jim escape from captivity. He thought Jim was dead therefore he had to more on and continue with his new life. He thought Tom was the ultimate adventurer and he also thought that Tom was always right and that he had all the answers. That is clear in the beginning of the book with the robbers club and it is clear at the end with the escape plan. Huckleberry Finn is trying to break the barrier of racism, it has a white boy and a black man befriending eachother and depending on each other to survive in the the wilderness and "uncivilized" nature. · This is how the people were back then. That is what they grew up with and how it was acceptable to act then. Since MT was the first author to look back on history, he had to make it realistic because he was criticizing it and if we don't want to make that mistake again, we have to know how bad it actually was and what it was really like Slaves were ciews as property, not people, at the time period (local color). ||


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