The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain - 1611 Words

A Journey To Change Throughout time people have encountered dilemmas that result in change in society. Perhaps change is something that is mistaken as an unwanted struggle for development, but in fact, people overlook their own fear of uncertainty in what benefits change can bring. Countless times in American history change has been forced upon the people rather than embraced with open arms. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain illustrates Huck Finn’s struggle to alter his values and go against what he’s been raised to believe in society throughout his life: African Americans are inferior to whites. In the novel, Twain teams up Huck with a runaway slave, Jim, who is a key character to helping Huck change how he views other†¦show more content†¦By which Huck was raised, he sees Jim as a black slave who can’t think for himself and has a very small range of emotions. In one particular part of the book when Huck and Jim are stuck together on the raft, Jim starts talking enthusiastically about gaining his freedom and traveling back up the river to â€Å"steal† his family back. While Huck listens to Jim’s excitement, but yet knows is clearly against the law, he immediately slips back into the deep rooted racial mindset that surrounded him in his early childhood: â€Å"Saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn’t know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm† (95). At this point, all Huck identifies in Jim, is his criminal behavior wanting to steal â€Å"properties† from an innocent white man who hasn’t done anything wrong to deserve it. One of the key places in the novel where Huck demonstrates what he’s been taught by society about African Americans is when he tries to explain that there are people from other countries that speak a different language other than English. Huck and Jim go back and forth arguing over why French people d on’t just speak English in the first place and how if they don’t speak like Huck and Jim, then they don’t speak like a man. Eventually Huck gave up on trying to clarify that there are other languages other than English, â€Å"I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you cant learn a n**** to argue† (86). Huck implies that Jim is too dumb to understand