ENGL 2132 Lecture 2: Huckleberry Finn Introduction
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Good hearted but ignorant, backwoods boy, uncivilized, innocence . Twain is using huck as a mouthpiece to comment on racism and is tearing the institution apart. It"s also a way for twain to have people actually give the work a chance because if he had come out with an essay of a similar message, then it would have been disregarded as propaganda. Huck is an outsider of high society, who are the main audience. Jim is also an outsider due to his race. Huck is able to say things that are a bit slanted because of his background that twain would never be able to say outright. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. ~rousseau on the chains of society. He depicts a time and place of racism. Many people believe that use of the n word is too awful to be used in this novel, but the removal often changes the intensity of twain"s meaning.
