In his article Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Julius Lester argues that the book is racist it that shouldn't be read by the future students. He believes the book downplays the negative parts of slavery and uses too many stereotypes.
Lester claims that the things that Huck thinks are “evidence of an inability to relinquish whiteness as a badge of superiority.” He quotes the part where Huck thinks, “I knowed he was white inside” to make his point. Huck believes that all N------ are bad people and all white people were good but he believed that Jim was white in the inside there for that’s why he helped him get away and was nicer to him. It’s hard not to think of Huck as a racist person after reading that quote because that’s just a stereotype all people can be bad and good don’t matter what race they’re this believe that black people are bad is irrelevant.
Lester also claims that Twain does not “take slavery, and therefore, black people seriously.” he thinks that because twain is trying to compare the situation with his father when Huck got kidnapped by his father keeping him locked in a cabin and Jim as an actual slave own by someone else legal enslavement. A boy been helped by a drunken father is not the same as a slave being kept and lock beaten and own by another person. Twain did not take slavery seriously there for he didn’t take black people serious there for the book is racist.
Something I learn from this article was how the characters or Twain try so hard to not being seen as racist but they just made it worse and I agree with Julius Lester that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be read by the future children at school is way too racist.`
No comments:
Post a Comment