As I started to read “Huckleberry Finn” I felt as if this book had multiple perspectives and had a broader side of what was actually happening during this time period. As “Song of Solomon” was more of how the same ethnicity people interacted with one another based on their economical background. To my understanding “Huckleberry Finn” was more racist with the vocabulary used but it was not to detail of what was happening. They were both surprising due to the new content it had that I didn’t know about but they were very enjoyable since a lot of history, not taught in schools, was brought up.
Critical lens had a very important factor in the way I read and understood the stories. As it has benefits it also has downside. As I choose Marxist lens I would of never focused on how the economy affected the their life and the treatment they got but I would have viewed the book from a race perspective since it was something that was present all the time. I believed that if I wouldn’t of chosen the Marxist lens I wouldn't be able to understand how the social economic structure had a role among black people. But a downside that I saw for focusing on one lens was that I missed the interaction among the general roles. I was too focus viewing the book from the marxist lens that I put to a side all the other lens and perspectives.
Over all, I think this project was an eye opener because I learned that not only were they discriminated by the white people but also by their own kind when they were in a lower economical status. I learned that capitalist ideas change people and cause them to forget what they had to go through in order to be at a higher place in the social classes. People in this country in the past and now only take in consideration their profit without looking at the consequences and the affect they caused on others.
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